YDP hosts Qizlar Collective in July 2026 as our second residents. Founded in 2022, Qizlar Collective is a grassroot feminist collective of contemporary cultural and art practitioners and activists from Uzbekistan.

Working at the intersection of art, culture, education and community-building, Qizlar Collective creates opportunities for women and girls by building spaces for learning and artistic expression. During their residency at YDP, three Tashkent-based members of the collective, Rusudan Mirobzalova, Sofia Seitkhalil and Malika Zayniddinova, will spend one month in London together and further develop an existing interview project, Ayol Sevgi (Women. Love). The project addresses the diasporic condition of distance, liminality and constant border-crossing. It draws on Qizlar members’ lived experiences of navigating and redefining themselves during processes of migration as well as on connections with London’s Central Asian communities, and together they will collaborate on the production of videos, notes, mind maps and journals.

From 7 July to 15 August, an interactive display will be on view in the Artist’s Lab at YDP, where Mirobzalova, Seitkhalil and Zayniddinova will invite all visitors for tea and conversations from 4pm to 6pm on Saturday afternoons throughout July. At the end of their residency, Mirobzalova, Seitkhalil and Zayniddinova will lead a public workshop Are We In a Bubble? as part of the YDP Summer Festival, where participants are invited to reflect on the social, cultural, geographical and linguistic borders that form ‘bubbles’ around their identity and existence.