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Photographer Boris Mikhailov to Represent the Ukrainian Pavilion at the 57th Biennale

Words by Carla Ingrasciotta
January 13, 2017

Curated by Dallas Contemporary, this year the Ukraine Pavilion at the Venice Biennale will be represented by photographer Boris Mikhailov (born in 1938 in Kharkov, Ukraine lives and works in the Ukraine and in Berlin).

One of the leading photographers from the former Soviet Union, in his artistic research, Boris explore the human condition within the social, economical and political ideology of the years that saw Ukraine under Soviet rule. His work his often contaminated by personal narratives of humor, fear and death.

Dallas Contemporary is a not-for-profit art museum in Dallas, Texas promoting national and international artists.

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