Open Files
Open Files is an installation project that gives material form to censored, marked, and displaced images taken from the photographic archive of US News and World Report. The acts of creation and destruction of information, whether by the photographer, editor, or authorities, is transformed into the physicality of the objects.
Drawn from the obscurity of forgotten histories and further decontextualized by image erasure, this project underscores the incomplete and fictional nature of an archive, questioning and subverting its inherent authority. The obstructed window, as a site of partial visibility and constrained representation, proposes a construction of alternative narratives, of stories formed from fragments whose connections remain open to our projection.
Sasha Rudensky
Sasha Rudensky is a Russian born photographer, whose work has been exhibited widely in the US, Europe, and Asia. Her debut solo show “Tinsel and Blue” was exhibited at Sasha Wolf gallery in NYC in 2016. Her work is held in a number of public collections including Musee de l’Elysee, Yale University Art Gallery, and Center of Creative Photography in Tuscon amongst others. Sasha received her MFA from Yale University School of Art and BA from Wesleyan University. She was the recipient of the Aaron Siskind Individual Fellowship grant, Ward Cheney Memorial Award from Yale University, Mortimer-Hays Brandeis Traveling Fellowship, and the Leica/Jim Marshall Award. She is a regular contributor to The New York Times Magazine. Her work has appeared in Aperture, Art Forum, The Guardian, Der Spiegel, The Times UK and others. She is an Associate Professor of Art at Wesleyan University, where she is the head of the photography program and is represented by Sasha Wolf Projects in New York City. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.