László Elias Wenk is an artist working in archival research, historical memory, and material processes, with photography as a primary medium. Raised across Berlin, Singapore, Tokyo, and New York, he recently graduated from Princeton University with a B.A. in History and a minor in Visual Arts. Whether it's archival documents, distorted mini DV tapes, or mechanical attributes, his work closely investigates sources and processes. Klick und Surr, his recent senior thesis exhibition at the Lewis Center for the Arts, drew on East German surveillance archives and his own familial experiences. The show featured analog silver gelatin and RA-4 prints mounted on a dozen stainless-steel frames with engravings from the Stasi Archives.

Other bodies of work, including Lichtertanz (2026) and Januar 09 (2026), turn from the formal academic archive toward private family documentary and the mechanics of photographic production itself. In Lichtertanz, a series of RA-4 darkroom photogram prints are made by projecting light directly into the film processor during development. The series stages a collaboration and a tension between the artist's freedom and the developer's mechanical rigidity. Januar 09 is a series of film stills pulled directly from a corrupted MiniDV tape. The medium, usually intended for intimate documentation of families, becomes distorted through compression and warping, forming abstract images and highlighting the fading nature of memories.

László holds a B.A. in History with a minor in Visual Arts from Princeton, where he studied under James Welling, Deana Lawson, Tim Szetla, and Jeff Whetstone. He continues to develop an independent artistic practice alongside his professional work, with hopes of graduate study in the near future.