{"product_id":"9782493467096-keep-distance","title":"KEEP DISTANCE","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn Keep Distance, Boris Mikhaïlov leads us on a wild,dizzying ride from which we emerge slightly breathless andunsteady. Acting as a kind of visual logbook, the series iscomposed primarily of recent images (2020–2024) with someolder photos mixed in. It has all the appearance of a mentaltracking shot, one in which fragmentary or haphazardlyframed images unsettle our gaze to such a degree that wefind ourselves doubting what we see.Street scenes, everyday objects and screenshots combinewith more intimate portraits: of his wife and collaboratorVita, his children, his inner life. The framing is always a littleunstable, on the edge of leaving something out of shot,never neutral.The title, Keep Distance, acts as a warning. We keep ourdistance, then – but what from? Visions of a world fastlosing all meaning? An obstinate past, the reminiscences ofwhich haunt every image? Like Mikhaïlov, it is up to us tofind some lightness amid all this gravity, a space for play.Keep Distance pursues the photographer’s long-standingobsessions: the constant tension between presence andself-effacement, between the banality of the things we seeand an unrelenting quest for beauty. It is a space in whichphotography becomes a tool against oblivion, against theend, against indifference.Jimmy Poulot-Cazajous is a doctoral student in CreativeWriting at the University of Toulouse Jean-Jaurès, where hisresearch focuses on the phenomenological poetics of time inthe work of Jean-Philippe Toussaint. He is the founder of themagazine La Coudée, and currently at work on a collectionof short stories. For Keep Distance, he has crafted a piece offiction that melds snapshots of intimacy with the kinds ofmotifs that so appeal to Boris Mikhaïlov: everyday life, thespectacularization of the banal, and how current events – atonce trivial and tragic – erupt into our online existences.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57106792612214,"sku":"9782493467096","price":60.71,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9782493467096-keep-distance","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}