Exhibitions
Of Matter: Undergraduate Thesis Show
Bard College, Annandale on Hudson, NY
December 2017
Effects That Aren't Special:The 40th Annual Photo Regional
Curated by Tim Davis
The Opalka Gallery, Albany, NY
March–April 2018
Saskia Baden's photographs are about death and photography, photography and death. She reaches for her subject like a mussel collector at low tide, hands in dark, unseeable places, bringing her quarry to light. The effect peals across the image like specks of dust flaming alive as they enter our atmosphere. Working entirely with analog media—a 4x5 camera and black and white film and silver paper—Baden is interested in the latent pain created when a leaf shutter slams closed, separating the image from its origin, dragging it across the darkened no-man's-land of the camera body to the coffin of the film holder. Luckily, the prints are an image's resurrection, and Baden's work thrums with relief. The body dies. The world every photograph emerged from is dead forever. But the photograph lives on, especially the ones printed in silver and properly fixed. Baden is a young artist—this work is her undergraduate thesis project—but as is often the case, the young understand death better than the aged; they are closer to remembering it.
—Tim Davis, Curator
BARD PAPERS II: Selected works of Bard College students and faculty
May 2018
The Body: Power, Meaning, and Representation in Contemporary Art
Group show at The Fine Arts Center at Washington State University
Curated by June Sanders
November 2018
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Juried by Mia Dalglish & Lisa Woodward
The South East Center for Photography
Greenville, SC
July, 2019
Notch Code: An Exhibition with Light Leaked Magazine
Standard Cameras
Jurors Choice Award
July 2020
Absence Perception
Solo show at The Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA
February 2020 - April 2020
