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Sakha Art & History

Hand turning a page of the hand-bound Sakha Art and History publication

Overview

Exploring the formation of a national visual culture through art, history, and material form.

The publication studies how Sakha visual culture was shaped through colonisation, folk art, mythology, and the work of pioneering artists.

The woven birch-bark cover and hand-bound construction bring a tactile regional material into dialogue with a restrained editorial grid.

01 — Material formCover and title page
Woven birch-bark cover and title page
02 — The physical bookSelected spreads
Mikhail Lukin spread in the physical publication
History of the Russian conquest of Sakha spread
Sakha folk art spread in the physical publication
03 — Research structureHistory, mythology, artists
Introduction spread
Olonkho artworks spread
Ivan Popov research spread
Olonkho storytellers research spread
04 — OlonkhoSymbolism and meanings
Olonkho symbolism and meanings spread

The binding is part of the argument: research is carried by a form that remembers place.