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Portrait of Jessica Andrey Bogush

Jessica Andrey Bogush

Born in
1987
From
Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation
Lives and works
Helsinki, Finland
Represented by
Osnova Gallery
Website
http://andreybogush.com/
Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrey_Bogush

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[...] It's my personal life on the one hand, and cultural, political, or even science issues that mean something to me on the other hand. These influences usually intersect each other and I think of them as a part of my personality. So it could be said that in this way the reason for inspiration is a sort of self-examination.

Biography

Combining together digital tools such as smartphones and laptops with biomorphic figures like plants and butterflies, Andrey Bogush creates artworks which explore our contemporary visual culture. Working across different disciplines such as fine art, fashion and advertising, Bogush’s work testifies to our contemporary lifestyle governed by social media imagery with its never ending stream of images. Working primarily with Photoshop but printing their images in odd surfaces like curtains, vinyls or rugs, they push photography further, making us reconsider the medium’s definition. 


Adhering to Donna Haraway’s ideas described in her Cyborg Manifesto, Bogush views machines as extensions of our bodies instead of mere external tools. Like Haraway, they seemingly consider the human as a hybrid entity with both organic matter and machinery, choosing to show in their work a combination of technique and craftsmanship. 


Georges Seurat’s pointillism can be viewed as an early precursor of the pixel, making his work akin to Bogush’s post-internet aesthetics where glitches and pixels are materialisations of our vision.

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