Concept of the Artist

This body of work explores the deeply troubling circumstances of people who have been left homeless by the collapse of the Soviet Union. Set against the bleak backdrop of the industrial city of Kharkov, Mikhailov?s life-size color photographs document the oppression, devastating poverty, and everyday reality of a disenfranchised community living on the margins of Russia?s new economic regime. Mikhailov recalls of his experience returning to Kharkov some years after the collapse of communism, ?Devastation had stopped. The city had acquired an almost modern European centre. Much had been restored. Life became more beautiful and active, outwardly (with a lot of foreign advertisements)?simply a shiny wrapper. But I was shocked by the big number of homeless (before they had not been there). The rich and the homeless?the new classes of a new society?this was, as we had been taught, one of the features of capitalism.? One of the most haunting documents of post-Soviet urban conditions, Mikhailov?s pictures capture this new reality with poetry, clarity, and grit.
Source :https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/1125

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