Project Description

Svetlana Romanova

Portrait of Svetlana Romanova

FSC-Harvard Fellow 2025-26, 2026-27

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.

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Film Still fort ross

fort ross (working title)

Svetlana Romanova

The project examines how official narratives and fragmented memories, particularly concerning the Russian Arctic, are mediated through film, sound, and archival remnants, with the work situated in the US due to geopolitical constraints.

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