Sasha Fishman ’24 Debuts ‘Resurrectura’ at Murmurs

By
Andrew Scott
December 17, 2024

Visual Arts alum Sasha Fishman ’24 is debuting her solo exhibition Resurrectura at Murmurs Gallery in Los Angeles, on view from November 9, 2024 to February 23, 2025.

The exhibition is a collection of works created by Fishman during her time in Columbia’s MFA program, with work spanning sculpture, video, and a variety of materials that speak to her fascination with “interspecies relationships, desire, entropy, and preservation.”

Sasha Fishman '24, '𝘐’𝘮 𝘩𝘺𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘭𝘶𝘦,'

“Through exchanges with local salmon hatcheries, a salmon smokery, scientists, and water conservationists, this work questions the limitations of our comfort with ephemerality across materials, industries, and environments,” said Fishman.

Fishman’s unique approach created a special challenge in presenting the work, but Murmurs was more than up to the task. “Their support towards risky and materially complex work is rare and important in the art world,” said Fishman. “It is one thing to show paintings and sculptural works that can live on pedestals, and a much bigger task to support tech-heavy, site-specific, installation-intensive works that have water components. 

“I think the through line of all of the works I made is my curiosity with water,” added Fishman. “The organisms that live in it, energy extracted from and found in water, and material entropy that occurs from materials degrading from corrosion, thermal change, microplastics, chemical residues, and life cycles.”

Sasha Fishman '24, '𝘏𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘋𝘳𝘺𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘓𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘞𝘦𝘵𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴,'

The exhibition is just the latest for Fishman’s growing practice, which already includes presenting work across the United States and internationally, leading artists talks and workshops at the university level, and building a trusted community of collaborators.

This fraternity of fellow artists and admirers also played a direct role in the new exhibition. “Murmurs found me through a friend in LA that shared my work with them,” recalled Fishman. “Murmurs was always a gallery whose programming I loved and dreamed about showing with, so I feel extremely lucky and grateful.”

It’s a gratitude that Fishman is quick to offer at every level of the process. “I think community is so incredibly important and it really is what has gotten me to where I am,” she said. “I wouldn’t have as much fun making and learning by myself as I do with the people I’ve met through the research or other artists who have been a huge support along the way.”

Murmurs is open to the public weekly on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Fridays, and Saturdays from 11am to 6pm.