EOS
artist’s photobook
part of the project The Land of Bizarre Rocks
2024
Eos is a visual journey through the underside of the Krasnoyarsk Stolby, a national park on the border between the city and the Siberian taiga. For nearly 200 years, a community has lived around its syenite crags in a singular relationship with the landscape, with one another, and with the very idea of freedom.
The book is woven from a personal archive of ten years in the life of the artist within the space of Stolby and the stolbisty subculture. Here, documentation of her circle’s everyday existence intertwines with images of local mythology — on the edge of mystery and mischief. Through wanderings in the night, endless meetings with the risings of the moon, the sun, and the stars, the book offers not so much to see as to feel the land of bizarre rocks.
Eos is the ancient Greek goddess of the dawn, who heralds the coming of light and the retreat of darkness. To greet and to bid farewell to the sun atop the crags is one of the local rituals most beloved. Light in the book becomes a guiding thread: it changes form, flows across the pages, and leads deep into the forest, the stones, and the cosmos.
Curator: Jeniya Yahina
First edition (2024):
148 pp.
170 × 230 mm
open spine, hardcover
typeface: Ysabeau Office
text paper: Olin Regular High White 120 gsm
cover paper: Efalin 121 thin linen 120 gsm
print run: 100 copies
Second edition (2025):
164 pp. 170 × 230 mm
open spine, hardcover
typeface: Ysabeau Office
text paper: OZON New 120 gsm
cover paper: BUDAN Black
print run: 200 copies
