Boris.Zaborov

Boris Zaborov.Philippe B P Bonafoux.2007.Milano.Skira.Zaborov pictures are described by author as...fragments of life,splinters of existence seized as though by chance at a time of the non-event.               Zaborov uses old photographers to create his paintings, they inhabit no discernible space like Byzantium icons,we are made to observe both image and surface texture all at once.When describing his photographic sources Zaborov states " Of all the very different things that surround us,old photographs from family albums are what unsettle my imagination the most. They have a hypnotic power. People whose lives I know nothing gaze apon me from the distance of their past. Over powering me with their secret life...".