Pigeons & Peacocks

Photograph by Andrey Bogush.

My artistic development is a constant search for new ways of media use… I like Flusser’s idea that a photographer plays with his apparatus and that his game does not create a new reality but finds new uses of this apparatus (or, to be more precise, its programmed capabilities). However, this game is precisely my addiction and makes me use (probably, consume) photography more and more. The thing to do is to analyze this game, and consequently to study the medium.

Despite of the media-centric focus, photographs and videos are evidence of what is happening in reality for me. Hence, I think of my works as studies of the reality that surrounds me, myself and issues that are important to me such as culture, religion and gender. That is, anthropological and topographical issues, but with a narcissistic focus. The aim is to study these issues and then merge them in art objects through the chosen medium. This process resembles me creating a museum of reality (or probably the cabinet of curiosities), in which every project is like a hall with ready-made exhibits.

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