Mikhaïlov – Keep Distance

Boris Mikhaïlov leads us on a dizzying ride from which we emerge slightly breathless and unsteady. Acting as a kind of visual logbook, the series is primarily recent images taken between 2020 and 2024, along with some older photographs. It appears as a mental tracking shot, where fragmentary or haphazardly framed images unsettle our gaze to such a degree that we find ourselves doubting what we see. Street scenes, objects, and screenshots combine with more intimate portraits of the Ukrainian photographer’s wife and collaborator, Vita, and of his children and private life. Never neutral, his compositions always seem on the edge of leaving something out of shot.

24 x 18 cm