Film still from tœn:y: (2025) by al-yené. Film installation with textiles. Textiles made in collaboration with Cara Farnan and Tatyjaas Filippova), duration 20 mins. al-yené
al-yené is is a visual artist from the Sakha Republic. She has ancestral ties to both the Kolyma region and the central part of the republic, and was raised in Zyryanka and Yakutsk. Her practice engages themes of continuity, displacement, gaps, and absences within the cultural memory of the Sakha people and related northern communities. Drawing on personal and familial histories alongside state archives and media, she reflects on how Indigenous identities and memories are shaped, silenced, and reclaimed.
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