andrey bogush
zwei schwestern
Zwei Schwestern
Andrey Bogush and Sinaida Michalskaja
At Zarinbal Khoshbakht, Cologne
June 02 — June 20, 2020
A dissociative approach to thinking about contemporary visual culture, one which articulates technologies of desire – and involves methods of scaling, digital printing and ornamentation, while also drawing on architectural elements and the objectification of images – by making nonsense of them.
In Guardian (The art market wants porn, but it doesn’t want it when it comes from feminism), 2020, Andrey Bogush inserts a quote by Beatriz Preciado from 2008 (1) onto a blown-up, low resolution image of a key from a computer game; the image itself is printed on an IKEA shower curtain. In an echo of the production process, the curtain hangs on a steel rack with unpolished corners. Proposal for hoover, cat cut out and distorted face (The living web of care is not one where every giving involves taking, nor every taking will involve giving), 2020, is a kinetic sculpture composed of a stand-up cat-shaped display with a human face printed on it; this in turn sits on a robot hoover that is confined to an elevated, round compound. (2)
(1) Beatriz Preciado. Museum, Urban Detritus and Pornography. Zehar 64, 2008, p. 30.
(2) In the parenthesis of the title, Bogush uses a quote by María Puig De la Bellacasa. Matters of Care: Speculative Ethics in More Than Human Worlds. University of Minnesota Press, 2017, p.112.
(from exhibition press release)
further images: https://www.ofluxo.net/zwei-schwestern-andrey-bogush-and-sinaida-michalskaja-at-zarinbal-khoshbakht-cologne/
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