Four Elements of the Silk Road (2018 – 2021)
My first big project. The birthplace of "mental archaeology". Portraits of modern Buryat women — oil, gold, fur, silk.
A search for ancient beliefs inside living faces.
A search for ancient beliefs inside living faces.
Wind of Changes
oil on linen canvas, rhinestones
60 х 80 х 2 сm
(23,6 x 31,5 x 0,8 inch)
© Daria Harlauta 2019
SOLD in a private collection, Israel
60 х 80 х 2 сm
(23,6 x 31,5 x 0,8 inch)
© Daria Harlauta 2019
SOLD in a private collection, Israel
The Crow
oil on linen canvas, crystals
60 х 80 х 2 сm
(23,6 x 31,5 x 0,8 inch)
© Daria Harlauta 2019
SOLD in a private collection, USA
60 х 80 х 2 сm
(23,6 x 31,5 x 0,8 inch)
© Daria Harlauta 2019
SOLD in a private collection, USA
Hawk's Wings
oil on linen canvas,
50 х 60 х 2 сm
(19,7 х 23,6 x 0,8 inch)
© Daria Harlauta 2019
SOLD in a private collection, Russia
50 х 60 х 2 сm
(19,7 х 23,6 x 0,8 inch)
© Daria Harlauta 2019
SOLD in a private collection, Russia
Steppe Wind
oil on linen canvas, gold leaf
60 х 70 х 2 сm
(23,6 x 27,5 x 0,8 inch)
© Daria Harlauta 2019
SOLD In a private collection, USA
60 х 70 х 2 сm
(23,6 x 27,5 x 0,8 inch)
© Daria Harlauta 2019
SOLD In a private collection, USA
Flame, Ash and Snow
oil on linen canvas,
50 х 60 х 2 сm
(19,7 х 23,6 x 0,8 inch)
© Daria Harlauta 2019
In the collection of the V.A. Noskin Open Museum, Russia
50 х 60 х 2 сm
(19,7 х 23,6 x 0,8 inch)
© Daria Harlauta 2019
In the collection of the V.A. Noskin Open Museum, Russia
Fireflies
oil on linen canvas,
50 х 50 х 2 сm
(19,7 x 19,7 x 0,8 inch)
© Daria Harlauta 2019
SOLD in a private collection, Russia
50 х 50 х 2 сm
(19,7 x 19,7 x 0,8 inch)
© Daria Harlauta 2019
SOLD in a private collection, Russia
Summer Night
oil on linen canvas, gold leaf
50 х 40 х 2 сm
(19,7 x 15,7 x 0,8 inch)
© Daria Harlauta 2021
SOLD in a private collection, Russia
50 х 40 х 2 сm
(19,7 x 15,7 x 0,8 inch)
© Daria Harlauta 2021
SOLD in a private collection, Russia
Breaking Ice
oil on linen canvas, gold and copper leaf
40 х 120 x 2 сm
(15,7 x 47,3 x 0,8 inch, (15,7 x 15,7 x 0,8 inch each)
© Daria Harlauta 2021
SOLD in a private collection, Russia
40 х 120 x 2 сm
(15,7 x 47,3 x 0,8 inch, (15,7 x 15,7 x 0,8 inch each)
© Daria Harlauta 2021
SOLD in a private collection, Russia
The Facets of Myth:
Four Elements of the Silk Road (2019)
Master Gallery, Saint Petersburg
This was the beginning. My first big project. The moment I understood how I wanted to work.
I couldn't travel to Buryatia at that time. Instead, I talked to Buryat people. I listened. I made a remote request to the National Museum's archives. And from a distance, I tried to understand something ancient — the bones of a worldview where Buddhist philosophy and shamanistic roots still live inside people's faces, their gestures, the way they hold themselves.
I painted portraits of modern Buryat women. On canvas, I mixed oil with gold, relief ornaments, even mixed paint on fur and silk clothes. Why? Because history is not flat. It's layered, rough, hybrid. You can't translate ancient stories with clean, simple paint. You need a language just as complex as the memory you're trying to hold.
This project was not mine alone. Sculpture by Venera Abdullina, graphic art by Andrey Bliok, and performance - a fashion show featuring designs by Zhamso Ochirov. We built an entire environment: paintings next to sculpture, graphics, even a fashion show. A dialogue, not a solo.
Looking back now, I see it clearly: this is where "mental archaeology" was born. The method I still use today — digging for traces of the past inside the present.
No exoticism. No decoration. Just the work of listening, layer by layer.
Master Gallery, Saint Petersburg
This was the beginning. My first big project. The moment I understood how I wanted to work.
I couldn't travel to Buryatia at that time. Instead, I talked to Buryat people. I listened. I made a remote request to the National Museum's archives. And from a distance, I tried to understand something ancient — the bones of a worldview where Buddhist philosophy and shamanistic roots still live inside people's faces, their gestures, the way they hold themselves.
I painted portraits of modern Buryat women. On canvas, I mixed oil with gold, relief ornaments, even mixed paint on fur and silk clothes. Why? Because history is not flat. It's layered, rough, hybrid. You can't translate ancient stories with clean, simple paint. You need a language just as complex as the memory you're trying to hold.
This project was not mine alone. Sculpture by Venera Abdullina, graphic art by Andrey Bliok, and performance - a fashion show featuring designs by Zhamso Ochirov. We built an entire environment: paintings next to sculpture, graphics, even a fashion show. A dialogue, not a solo.
Looking back now, I see it clearly: this is where "mental archaeology" was born. The method I still use today — digging for traces of the past inside the present.
No exoticism. No decoration. Just the work of listening, layer by layer.
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