For the first time, the Pinault Collection is exhibiting an emblematic work by Boris Mikhailov: the series At Dusk made up of 110 photographs produced in Kharkiv, Boris Mikhailov’s hometown in Ukraine, a territory on the road to independence after the break-up of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s.

Each print in this series, tinted with a cobalt blue wash,  is a personal account of events rather than a historical document. This twilight blue colour evokes the traumatic memories of his childhood, linked to the Second World War.