Boris Mikhailov’s pioneering practice encompasses documentary photography, conceptual work, painting and performance. Since the 1960s, he has been creating a haunting record of the tumultuous changes in Ukraine that accompanied the collapse of the Soviet Union and the disastrous consequences of its dissolution. Conceived in close collaboration with the artist, the exhibition brings together more than 800 images that draw on more than twenty of his most important series, up to his most recent work.
To accompany this major event the MEP has invited three emerging artists to exhibit in the Studio, drawing out different themes from Mikhailov’s work: Elsa and Johanna work with performance and the logic of family albums, while Antony Cairns reworks and hand-colours images of contemporary cities in photography and film.
