andrey bogush

butterfly gina (to make love with drones)

a Butterfly Gina (To make love with drones)

Ars Libera Gallery, Kuopio, 2020

Invited commission

Butterfly cut-outs, transitional images, chains, nails, and reader with collected quotes, printed on burned textiles and A4 papers

Images sourced from screenshots of pornographic material, gaming websites, Paul B. Preciado's Phd thesis PDF (Pornotopia).

The exhibition title borrows from Paul B. Preciado's Apartment on Uranus.

List of works

1. Proposal for 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, sublimation print on recycled polyester, hot melt adhesive (HMA)

2. Proposal for butterfly cut out and hand, 2020, sublimation print on recycled polyester, hot melt adhesive (HMA)

3. Proposal for butterfly cut out and found image (Golf game), 2020, sublimation print on recycled polyester, nails

4. Proposal for summer field and digital drawing (To make love with drones), 2020, sublimation print on recycled polyester, chains, nail polish, nails

5. Proposal for a lying figure and summer field, 2020, sublimation print on recycled polyester, nails

6. Proposal for butterfly cut out and spread legs (As a gay man it doesn’t make any sense that you are not supposed to join in when you enter a jack-off party), sublimation print on recycled polyesther, chains, nail polish, nails

7. Proposal for microSD to SD Memory Card Adapter and painted nail (Our Lady of the Flowers), 2020, sublimation print on recycled polyester, SD card holder, adhesive tape, hot melt adhesive (HMA)

8. Hermaphrodite (Us living and dead), 2020, sublimation print on recycled polyester, chains, nail polish, nails

9. Proposal for butterfly cut out, head and computer game (The situation is like that of a bumble-bee which, by being there, became part of the genetic chain of the orchid), 2020, sublimation print on recycled polyester, chains, nail polish, nails

10. Proposal for yellow butterfly (But where was Eve?), 2020, sublimation print on recycled polyester, chains, nail polish, nails

⛓ A Reader (How To Make Yourself A Dildo), 2019-2020, inkjet prints on paper, nails

Download a PDF reader:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/10R0CcnLqT3jF5_ex2356xBLeY63i_FTb/view?usp=sharing

The work was kindly supported by The Arts Promotion Centre Finland (Taike)

Butterfly Gina (To make love with drones), Ars Libera Gallery, Kuopio, Finland, 2020

Proposal for yellow butterfly (But where was Eve?), 2020

detail: Proposal for yellow butterfly (But where was Eve?), 2020

Proposal for butterfly cut out, head and computer game (The situation is like that of a bumble-bee which, by being there, became part of the genetic chain of the orchid), 2020

Proposal for butterfly cut out and spread legs (As a gay man it doesn’t make any sense that you are not supposed to join in when you enter a jack-off party), 2019

Installation view at Andrey Bogush: Butterfly Gina (To make love with drones), Ars Libera Gallery, Kuopio, Finland, 2020

Hermaphrodite (Us living and dead)

Installation view at Andrey Bogush: Butterfly Gina (To make love with drones), Ars Libera Gallery, Kuopio, Finland, 2020

Proposal for butterfly and golf game (The words enclosed in brackets are likely to catch the private’s eye: “a (very handsome) young male student thought he could provoke me and also, I believe, seduce me a bit  by asking why I did not commit suicide"), 2020

Proposal for found image and summer field (Take a walk at night. Walk so silently that the bottoms of your feet become ears), 2020