andrey bogush
rendering for 2 monkeys
Rendering for 2 Monkeys Reading Love Letter to Barthes, in Box, with Light (After Brueghel)
2025
Cardboard box, C-print, led battery powered candle, chains, micro usb cable, clip
Tallinn Photomonth, Tallinn, Estonia
"It is a cardboard box hanging from the ceiling with round and triangular holes cut into it. Inside is a plastic candle and postcard stuck to one of the sides of the box. The postcard shows a painting of two monkeys, but it is not the famous one by Bruegel himself (Two Chained Monkeys, 1562). Bogush plays around with references of colonialism, materiality, and French Theory, but it’s done in a subtle and almost perfunctory fashion. As if to welcome the question “is that supposed to be photography?” head-on with an invitation inside a faux camera-obscura."
"Rethinking Photography: Between Screens, Matter, and the Everyday", by Joachim Aagaard Friis, Most Magazine, 2026
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