June 14, 2024 - September 29, 2024 | Biennale Matter of Art, Prague

The project explores the historical connections between inadequate water exploitation and female labor in Soviet-era Central Asia. Centered around The Great Fergana Canal and the cotton production, the project examines the intentional manipulation of both water resources and women for industrial ends.

March 21-30, 2024 | JOAN, Los Angeles

This program is part of the exhibition, Saodat Ismailova: Other Time and DAVRA research collective on view at JOAN through March 30. On the occasion of this exhibition, DAVRA invited Sorokina to curate a selection of films by young Central Asian artists working with moving image, which will be screened from March 21-30 within the installation space.

February, April, June 2023 | Eye Museum Magazine

Within the framework of Saodat Ismailova’s solo show ‘18,000 worlds’ at Eye Filmmuseum, DAVRA has prepared a series of texts specifically for the institution’s website.

December 25, 2022 - February 5, 2023

On the 19th of December, 2022, we started our Winter Chilla mirroring public programme with a group show in Tashkent.

2022 | documenta fifteen

fridzine - derived from Fridericianum zine - is a small publication that attempts to find answers to a simple and yet important question: what can we do in a museum?

June 25 - August 5, 2022 | documenta fifteen, Kassel

During the 100 days of documenta fifteen the forty chilltans were introduced to the public via DAVRA collective‘s ongoing research.

2022 | documenta fifteen

Chilltans are shape-shifters, fluid sacred spirits that have essentially been present in spiritual traditions in Central Asia. In this publication by DAVRA Collective, research on Chilltans is presented through academic texts, prose, poetry, photographs, illustrations and collages.