Galerie Suzanne Tarasieve, Paris x Galerie Fahmy Malinovsky, Paris

Boris Mikhaïlov & Carlota Sandoval Lizarralde

For this ART-O-RAMA stand, we want to bring together two artists of different generations and nationalities, Boris Mikhaïlov and Carlota Sandoval Lizarralde, both of whom have chosen to migrate. This dialogue contains themes common to both of them: the obsessive place of the country of origin (Ukraine, Colombia) and the plastic tricks (the theory of shock, the “cute”) used to describe how populations and places are turned upside down by Western capitalism.

 

In his Tea, Coffee, Cappuccino series, Boris Mikhailov spent ten years documenting the upheavals caused by the collapse of the Soviet Union in Ukraine. Through his lens, he captures the emergence of a middle class and the arrival on the market of Western products such as cappuccino. Boris Mikhailov realises that he is witnessing a pivotal moment: the collapse of one ideological system and the inevitable advance of another, marked by the influence of American capitalism and the uncertain but inevitable promise of a different future.

 

Carlota Sandoval Lizarralde grew up in an era of globalised capitalism. Her drawings describe the threshold effects, the porosity, the permanent passage of a being caught between two cultural zones. She draws realities that are always transitory; a psychic, cellular and geological life of borders. In her installations, craft and consumer objects complement the drawings as a collection of memories of past links and places – notably the Colombian kiosk.

 

For these artists, the motifs of the country of origin do not serve a protectionist national narrative. On the contrary, they are a reminder that the identity of individuals in globalised societies is constantly changing, elusive and vulnerable.

 

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