4 m in diameter x 1.65 m height
Wooden sticks, textiles, plastic tubes, conceptual pillows, the body of Shahmaran (soft sculpture), chair for two people with the book: Two Dairies: Gluklya and Murad
Criminal Fruit 2021
Field Wives 2023
Exhibition “Images of Power”, Textile Biennale, Museum Rijswijk, Netherlands. Curated by Diana Wind.
The war in Ukraine has again brought a centuries-old crime against women and also men to our attention. In the past century, stories about rape, abuse and terror only made the news afterwards, sometimes even years later, because the suffering that a war brings had to be dealt with in its entirety, perpetrators and victims had to find their place again. An example is the 70,000 ‘comfort women’ who were forced to work as sex slaves in army and navy brothels during the Japanese occupation of the former Dutch East Indies between 1942 and 1945.
To Those Who Have No Time to Play 2022-23
To those who have no time to play is structured around four stories drawn from the artist’s own experiences. Each narrative is represented by its own form of architecture and mode of reception. As someone looking at the exhibition, you are asked to perform different roles during your time there. You become a reader, a viewer, a listener, an emotional participant, an outsider caught in the midst of a protest, a collective presence in a chorus of sewing machines or any number of other roles you can define for yourself. There is a beauty in how the exhibition unfolds and how your attention is called to other people’s struggles that ask to become part of your own, if only for a little while.
from the curatorial text by Charles Esche “Who has no time to play?” (page 35)
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No Future But Poems
31.10—30.11.24
Apparatus 22
Gluklya
Ivana Spinelli
made in collaboration by: GALLLERIAPIU and SKALA
Gulmira Fairytales
Video screening at the 25 universally of Citadellartepistoletto,Biella,Italy, 21-25 September 2024
Sanatorium for Seamstresses
commissioned by the Trash-5 festival
Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
2024
My proposition for the Trash-6 was to connect the problem of Waste with the problem of Class. I think that research on pollution and toxic governmental politicks toward waste can not be progressed without looking at the life and work conditions of people who are working to organize this waste. Within this frame, I focused on the sewing workers, who are producing the clothes for export to Russia and partly China and Kazakhstan. The sewing waste often used to be burned in the city of Bishkek, sadly contributing to the ossified order of things.
The idea of a Sanatorium for Seamstressesis derived from the project Utopian Unemployment Union, started back in 2012. It is the ongoing research on alternative collaborations, aimed to subvert the status quo. Besides the fact of the wrong use of sewing waste by burning it, there a toxic work policies that play an important role in the story.
The proposition is to construct the situation for the encounter of seamstresses and artists aiming to reflect upon the idea of toxic work relationships metaphorically seeing as a waste and the literal unsolved problem with waste as a result of the disproportional spread of the capital, as a implication of the corruption and nepotism, allowing people at power to waste the money which supposed to be for the solving the problem of suffering lower class people from pollution.
Society of the Spontaneous Confessions
Part 1 Presentation of the artistic research Chachacha op het Marinetrein en verder
in collaboration with Robert Stijn
Bau ,Amsterdam
The workshop : Creating the Protest Clothes
The Body Implied: The Vanishing Figure in Soviet Art
Curated by Stephanie Dvareckas
6 March – 15 September, 2024
Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, United States
As far as the central part of the installation contained the curatorial selection (13 items) of the installation “Clothes for the Demonstration against the false election of Vladimir Putin ,(2015),the topic of the workshop was the creation of the protest clothes.
People where invited via the call :
People where invited by the text :Please bring an item of your clothing , one you might not regret giving away to the common space of social reflection and resistance.
It might be a tee-shirt, blouse, dress, trousers or any other item from you or your family members or chosen family members as well.
You are invited to take part in a collective creative process inside the museum ,where together, we will formulate our demands and produce the protest clothes . The aim of the workshop is to bridge the private and political, by connecting your experience of indignation, frustration or anger within the social and political reality.
Let’s think together what we want to improve and change in the society and self by formulating the slogan or visual image, using the pieces of our wardrobe as the tool of expression.
Selected items will participate in the 9 -th of March Festival dedicated to the feminist movement in Washington Square Park from 12 to 4 pm. The topic of this year’s festival which is dedicated the 8 -th of March is : Care for everybody despite the status , migration and social housing .
All are welcome to join us there !
People were truly engaged and the most value is that almost all the clothes with statements we produced indeed participated in the 8-th March Washington Square Park protest festival . It is important because usually the institution which hosts the workshop is motivating people to come because things they will produced will be given them to posses . People are usually very happy to keep the item of the clothing the produced during the workshop. But in this case people agreed to donate clothes to the festival which means it will support the undocumented migrants in NY and feminist solidarity in general .
Empowering Vulnerability 2024
Exhibition “The New Subject. Mutating Rights and Emerging Challenges of Living Bodies”, Kunsthal NORD, Aalborg, Denmark 2023. Curated by TOK (Anna Bitkina and Maria Veits) and Cathrine Gamst. Photo: Simon Bendix.
EMPOWERING VULNERABILITY,2024
Textile objects and a series of drawings
The installation presents Gluklya’s body of work, spanning from the post-Soviet context in 2006 to the present day in 2023, all bound together by the theme of politicized vulnerability. It comprises watercolors and conceptual clothing, both of which delve into the darker aspects of femininity. This thought-provoking exhibit invites viewers to contemplate the societal expectations and stereotypical roles imposed upon us.