Sasha Rudensky: Acts and Illusions
Wednesday September 13, 2017 - Sunday December 10, 2017
Sasha Rudensky, Night Market, from the series Tinsel and Blue, 2012, 40 x 57 inches. Archival pigment print. © Sasha Rudensky, courtesy of the artist and Sasha Wolf Projects.
For more than a decade, Sasha Rudensky has repeatedly returned to Russia and the post-Soviet territories with her camera. Her photographs track a lost generation that has come of age during the Putin Era—a time of political upheaval, ideological uncertainty, and unhinged materiality. This exhibition highlighted twenty-four photographs from Rudensky’s series Remains (2004–2007), Eastern Eve (2009–2014), and Tinsel and Blue (2009–2015). Shifting between social document and fantasy, truth and illusion, and banality and decadence, these meticulously observed and constructed images present an unsettling view into contemporary life in the New East.
Exhibition made possible in part by support from the Lemberg Fund and the Department of Art and Art History.