The First Chapter : Interview with Yana Sakhno (English ver.)
This conversation marks the seventh interview in the series ‘Defining Moments: The First Start or the Turning Moment’. We meet Yana Sakhno, a ceramic artist from Monchegorsk who has found her voice in Saint Petersburg. Trained in costume design but ultimately drawn to clay, Yana builds tactile worlds inhabited by singular characters—an approach that crystallized with her first BLOB, when emotion began to lead thought. Music and cinema set the rhythm of her practice. The painters Vrubel and Vermeer, and the satirical charge of James Ensor, inform her sensibility; among contemporary sculptors, sh...
