Game Room, from the series Tinsel and Blue Artist: Sasha Rudensky (American and Russian, born U.S.S.R. (Russia) 1979, M.F.A. 2008)

2010

Photography

By appointment, Duffy Study Room

Sasha Rudensky’s photographs of life in post-Soviet Russia reveal a country in transition—one still reliant on functional Soviet goods, yet increasingly obsessed with the acquisition of flashy Western products. Taken nearly two decades after the 1991 collapse of the U.S.S.R., Game Room pictures a Catholic boy in choir robes posed at a ping-pong table and illuminated from behind by an otherworldly light bursting from a basement window. The boy’s innocence is accentuated by the glowing whiteness of his robes and the virginal blue of the table and carpet that surround him.

Medium

Pigmented inkjet print

Dimensions

image: 20 1/16 × 25 in. (50.9 × 63.5 cm)
sheet: 24 1/8 × 30 1/16 in. (61.3 × 76.4 cm)

Credit Line

Gift of Benjamin Ogilvy, B.A. 2011

Accession Number

2014.114.1

Culture

Russian

Period

21st century

Classification

Photographs

Disclaimer

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Provenance
Purchased by Benjamin Ogilvy from Daniel Cooney Fine Art in February 2012
Bibliography
  • Lisa Hodermarsky et al., On the Basis of Art: 150 Years of Women at Yale, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2021), 300–301, no. 77, fig. 1
  • "Acquisitions 2015," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin: Online Supplement (accessed December 1, 2015), 46
Object copyright
Copyright Sasha Rudensky
In Copyright
Additional information

Object/Work type

inkjet prints, pigment prints

Subject

Women artists

Edition

1/6

Inscriptions

Verso LL corner, in black ink: From series: Novij Mir/ "Game Room" (c) 2010// 1/6

Signed

Signed verso LL corner, in black ink: Sasha Rudensky

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