Project Description
Svetlana Romanova
FSC-Harvard Fellow 2025-26
Svetlana Romanova (Sakha/Even) is an artist and filmmaker born in Yakutsk, the capital city of the Sakha Republic, Russia, located south of the Arctic Circle. Her practice centers on the importance of Indigenous visual language, particularly in the Arctic regions and gravitates towards critical self historization.
FSC Works
Svetlana Romanova
A hybrid documentary, made in collaboration with artist Aram Kavoossi, exploring American desert geographies as contested zones shaped by mythology, displacement, and militarization—drawing transhistorical parallels to Arctic imaginaries shaped by extraction, surveillance, and settler myth. Through sound and image, the project examines how land absorbs and reflects imperial histories, operating as both document and disturbance.