andrey bogush

glass prompt (for breughel)

glass prompt (for Breughel)
2025

Full HD video (color), stereo sound, AI-generated imagery
5 minutes 25 seconds, looped

Premiered at wrong: horse, wrong museum, Shahin Zarinbal
2026

wrong museum is delighted to present its inaugural exhibition wrong:horse. The exhibition opens with the premiere of glass prompt (for Breughel) by Andrey Bogush and the performance Les voyages et aventures extraordinaires du frère Angelo by Ville Laurinkoski on 5 March 2026, 5–8 pm. wrong museum is hosted by Shahin Zarinbal, Berlin.

Andrey Bogush (aka Jessica Andrey Bogush)’s Glass prompt (for Breughel) stutters between Pieter Bruegel’s Two Monkeys (made in 1562, housed at the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin) and Marguerite Duras’s The Truck (released in 1977). Two monkeys sit in the back of a moving van, holding two small, smudged mirrors toward each other to create a fake infinite loop, while a distorted Bach piece plays over the sound of the engine.

A crude, looped video based on lost chats with AI continues the artist’s practice of absences as queer care. Embedded digital prosthetics of AI generation and animal proxies reflect on the server, the archive and desire while the artist speculates what the algorithm remembers when the platform forgets.

For the opening event, Andrey Bogush invites long-term collaborator, visual artist and performer Ville Laurinkoski, to perform his new work, Les voyages et aventures extraordinaires du frère Angelo, a musical in one act.

Borrowing its title from Guy Hocquenghem’s late novel (1986), the work allegorizes the AIDS epidemic through the moral violence embedded in Christian imagery. Here, the Finnish youth song Evankeliumi is looped relentlessly against live excerpts of Hocquenghem’s text, confronting these systemic clichés of salvation through repetition.

For both artists, the loop is a way to deal with erasure. Both works suggest that the human condition (Arendt, 1958), especially the queer condition, is often mediated through something else (a screen, a monkey, a religious icon) because the direct experience is too painful or has been deleted. Where Bogush finds 'queer care' in the technical poetics of the algorithm, Laurinkoski stages an absurd condition until affect outlives archive.

(from press release)

more info: https://shahinzarinbal.com/

glass prompt (for Breughel)
2025 (still)