
Boris Mikhailov
from the series 'Yesterday's Sandwich', late 1960s-70s
chromogenic print, printed from the negative in 1997-1998
30 x 44 cm | edition of 7 + 1AP
5 of 7 + 1AP
The work is part of the first series conceived by Boris Mikhailov, Superimpositions, also called Butterbrot (Sandwich). This body of works evolved between the late ‘60s and early ‘70s, although...
The work is part of the first series conceived by Boris Mikhailov, Superimpositions, also called Butterbrot (Sandwich). This body of works evolved between the late ‘60s and early ‘70s, although - due to the restrictions of the Soviet era - it existed for a long time just in the form of slideshow, and the single images began to be printed not before the end of the 1980s, when he started to live in the West. The series was for the first time published much later, in 2006, in the book Yesterday’s Sandwich. In Yesterday’s Sandwich series, Boris’ criticism is veiled in metaphor and suggestion, relying on an unspoken narrative. A series of 52 images, each is composed of two color slides overlaid to portray a reality that is both fantastic and infinitely suggestive.
Exhibitions
Everything Was Moving: Photography from the 60s and 70s, Barbican Centre, London, 2012.
Time is Out of Joint, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin, 2012.
Yesterday's Sandwich, Sprovieri, London, 2018.
Literature
B. Mikhailov, Time is Out of Joint, Berlin, 2012, p. 88, illustrated in colour.
K. Bush, Everything Was Moving: Photography from the 60s and 70s, London, 2012, p. 211, illustrated in colour.
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