Image credit: Alexey Yurenev On April 14, 2026 from 6PM–8PM ICP alum and faculty member Alexey Yurenev launches his first monograph, Seeing Against Seeing, an artists’ book created by Yurenev in collaboration with designer Teun van der Heijden and the Anti-Kriegs-Museum in Berlin. To celebrate the book's launch Alexey will be joined in dialogue by van der Heijden and Fred Ritchin, author and dean emeritus of ICP at Printed Matter Bookstore in Manhattan, NY.
Seeing Against Seeing is an artist book created by Alexey Yurenev in collaboration with designer Teun van der Heijden and the Anti-Kriegs-Museum in Berlin. It is one of several outcomes of Silent Hero, a visual research project and historical investigation into Yurenev’s grandfather’s unspoken experience during World War II.
Image credit: Alexey Yurenev
Rooted in the documentary tradition, Yurenev’s practice confronts the challenge of visualizing what cannot be seen: absences in family and state archives, repressed memories, and events without witnesses. If photojournalism shows what could not be observed firsthand, one of generative AI’s more provocative capacities is to imagine what never happened but could have. It is this speculative potential that draws Yurenev into collaboration with artificial intelligence.
In addition to the upcoming book launch at Printed Matter NY, March sees the arrival of Silent Hero, a 36-page feature of Alexey’s work which includes essays and portfolio of images presented in the Virginia Quarterly Review.
For more information about the upcoming event at Printed Matter visit their website by clicking here.
Image credit: Alexey Yurenev
Alexey Yurenev
