Yaniya Mikhalina
is a Volga Tatar research-based artist based in Oslo, navigating postcolonial realities, its difficult pasts, and possible scenarios for reparative futures. She works across disciplines, mainly with (moving) image, sound, archive, and non-exemplary material heritage, often sourced from family archives and contemporary political conditions. She is particularly interested in how the gaze is produced, represented, and historicized within documentary contexts. Mikhalina is about to finish her PhD in artistic research at the Trondheim Art Academy, NTNU, titled The Colonial Mədness: Feminist-Indigenous Cosmologies.