ILY: Rokovanja

𝐈𝐋𝐘: 𝐑𝐨𝐤𝐨𝐯𝐚𝐧𝐣𝐚
24. 9.–15. 10. 2026
Galerija Kresija mala

📌𝐎𝐝𝐩𝐫𝐭𝐣𝐞 𝐫𝐚𝐳𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐯𝐞: 𝐜̌𝐞𝐭𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐤, 𝟐𝟒. 𝐬𝐞𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔, 𝐨𝐛 𝟏𝟖. 𝐮𝐫𝐢

👉Kolektiv ILY vabi na participatorno delavnico, v kateri bomo z izvajanjem gest rokovanja raziskovali, kako se med telesi vzpostavlja skupen sistem sporazumevanja ter kako se le-ta prenaša, spreminja in reinterpretira.
𝐃𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐯𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐚 𝐛𝐨 𝐩𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐤𝐚𝐥𝐚 𝐯 𝐩𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐤, 𝟗. 𝟏𝟎. 𝐢𝐧 𝐬𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐨, 𝟏𝟒. 𝟏𝟎., 𝐨𝐛 𝟏𝟔. 𝐮𝐫𝐢.

✍️Razstava Rokovanja kolektiva ILY, ki ga sestavljajo Iza Štrumbelj Oblak, Lea Topolovec in Yana Deliyska, izhaja iz fiktivne družine, ki jo umetnice razvijajo kot okvir skupne prakse. Tokrat v ospredje postavljajo svoj notranji jezik in načine, kako ta nastaja v gestah in medsebojnih odzivih.

Rokovanje obravnavajo kot koreografijo pozdrava. Ta vsakdanji družbeni ritual ima prepoznaven potek, ki ga lahko odziv druge osebe spremeni. S pozdravom se vzpostavi prvi stik, ponavljanje pa gesto postopoma preoblikuje. Rokovanje je mogoče prevzeti in predati naprej, z vsako novo izvedbo pa se lahko spremeni tudi njegov pomen. Nekaj, kar se začne kot znana gesta, tako ostaja odprto temu, kar se zgodi v srečanju.

Obiskovalke_ci so povabljene_i, da v paru zasnujejo svojo različico rokovanja in zanjo napišejo navodilo. Telesno dejanje s tem prevedejo v besede, zapis pa gesto prepusti novi izvedbi. Notranji jezik kolektiva se tako odpre občinstvu, njegove geste pa začnejo krožiti med drugimi ljudmi. Vsaka ponovitev jih nekoliko preoblikuje in jim lahko pripiše drugačen pomen.
(Adrijan Praznik)

𝐊𝐨𝐥𝐞𝐤𝐭𝐢𝐯 𝐈𝐋𝐘 sestavljajo umetnice Iza Štrumbelj Oblak, Lea Topolovec in Yana Deliyska. Povezuje jih zanimanje za umetnost kot prostor srečevanja, izmenjave in vzpostavljanja začasnih skupnosti. V skupni praksi z dokumentarnimi mediji beležijo igro vlog ter razvijajo orodja in situacije za participativna srečanja z občinstvom. Njihovo delo izhaja iz osebnih spominov, pričakovanj in želja ter obravnava potrebo po podpori in pogoje skupnega umetniškega dela. Njihovi projekti nastajajo procesno, na prehodu med fikcijo in dejanskimi potrebami sodelovanja. Svoje delo so predstavile na razstavi Speculative Gatherings v Slakthusetu v Göteborgu (2024), na 6. trienalu mladih umetnic in umetnikov – PREMIERA 2025 v Galeriji sodobne umetnosti v Celju (2025) ter na razstavi Friends with Benefits v Galeriji Škuc (2026).

Foto: kolektiv ILY
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𝐈𝐋𝐘: 𝐇𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐬
24. 9.–15. 10. 2026
Kresija Minor

📌Exhibition opening: Thursday, 24 Septmeber 2026, 6 pm

👉Join the ILY collective for a participatory workshop where we perform the handshake gesture to explore how a shared system of communication forms between bodies, and how this system is transmitted, transformed, and reinterpreted.
𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐩 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐛𝐞 𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐝 𝐨𝐧 𝐅𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐚𝐲, 𝐎𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟗, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐖𝐞𝐝𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐝𝐚𝐲, 𝐎𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟏𝟒, 𝐚𝐭 𝟒 𝐩𝐦.

✍️The exhibition Handshakes by the ILY collective – comprising Iza Štrumbelj Oblak, Lea Topolovec, and Yana Deliyska – draws on a fictional family that the artists are developing as a framework for their collaborative practice. This time, the artists focus on their internal language and how it emerges through gestures and mutual responses.

The collective perceives the handshake as a choreography of greeting. This everyday social ritual has a familiar sequence, but the other person’s response can alter it. While the greeting establishes initial contact, repetition gradually transforms the gesture. A handshake can be adopted and passed on, and with each new iteration its meaning may change. Something that begins as a familiar gesture remains open to whatever happens in the encounter.

Visitors are invited to work in pairs to devise their own version of the handshake and to write instructions for it. In doing so, they translate the physical act into words, whilst the written record allows the gesture to be performed anew . This opens the collective’s internal language to the audience: its gestures begin to circulate among other people, and with each repetition, they find themselves slightly transformed and possibly imbued with a different meaning.
(Adrijan Praznik)

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐂𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 are Iza Štrumbelj Oblak, Lea Topolovec, and Yana Deliyska, artists who share an interest in art as a space for encounter, exchange, and the formation of temporary communities. In their collaborative practice, they use documentary media to record role-play and develop tools and scenarios for participatory encounters with the audience. Their work draws on personal memories, expectations, and desires, exploring the need for support and the conditions for collaborative artistic practice. Their projects emerge through a process that straddles the line between fiction and the practical needs of collaboration. The collective showcased their work at the exhibition Speculative Gatherings at Slakthuset in Gothenburg (2024), the 6th Triennial of Young Artists – PREMIERA 2025 at the Celje Gallery of Contemporary Art (2025), and the exhibition Friends with Benefits at the Škuc Gallery (2026).

Photo: ILY collective