SKRB: When Rivers weep
An art exhibition that engages with the troubling question: How to coexist with nature?
Y Gallery, Ljubljana | 24 April – 25 June 2025
Jatun Risba took part in the group exhibition SKRB: When Rivers Weep…, curated by Jernej Čuček Gerbec at Y Gallery in Ljubljana. The exhibition featured three distinct artistic approaches exploring grief, kinship, and multispecies care in the context of ecological and hydrological collapse.
Jatun presented the collaborative work Crows in Dead Olive Groves (2023), created in collaboration with Franco G. Livera. The piece meditates on the mass die-off of olive trees in Apulia due to the Xylella fastidiosa epidemic, embodying a crow as a witness and mourner in a ravaged landscape. The work was exhibited as a video, two large-format prints on Alu-Dibond, and an installation comprising the crow costume used in the performance. During the Ljubljana Art Week, Risba & Livera premiered the Crows in Dead Olive Groves photobook (2025), offering a deeper, immersive lens into the project’s narrative.
Alongside this artwork, the exhibition included Bitter by Martina Miño Perez and the sonorous experiential work Voluminous Movement of a Watery Earth by beepblip.
A video review of the exhibition featuring the curator Jernej Čuček Gerbec was released by the YT channel Sodobna Umetnost, an online platform for contemporary art: