A solo exhibition by Evgeniya Strygina co-curated by Berfin Cicek.
here (not) there brings together two distinct yet interconnected phases of the artist’s practice. Earlier works focus on urban spaces and natural landscapes, often emptied of human presence, where attention is directed toward structure, atmosphere and the quiet language of form. In more recent works, the focus shifts toward people, memory and lived experience, reflecting an ongoing engagement with questions of belonging, displacement and identity.
At the centre of the exhibition is Home From Home, an evolving body of work developed over the past three years. Through photographic portraits, text and archival materials, Strygina traces the experiences of Ukrainians and Russians who relocated to the UK following the outbreak of war, examining how a sense of home is reconstructed within unfamiliar environments. These works are not presented as fixed narratives, but as fragments of lived realities, shaped by distance, adaptation and emotional continuity.
Across the exhibition, space operates as both subject and condition. Landscapes and interiors no longer function solely as formal compositions, but as sites of transition where personal and collective histories intersect. Figures appear within these environments not as stable identities, but as presences negotiating between past and present, here and elsewhere.
Visually, the exhibition moves between clarity and ambiguity, combining more figurative photographic works with a conceptual framework that includes text, sequencing and archival traces. This layered approach resists singular interpretation, instead constructing a narrative that remains open and shifting.
here (not) there brings these elements into dialogue as an ongoing journey. The exhibition does not resolve the tensions it presents, but holds them in suspension, reflecting a state of in-between that is at once geographical, emotional and artistic.
Artist:
Evgeniya Strygina
Curators:
Monica Colussi
Address:
200 Battersea Park Rd
London
SW11 4ND
Private View:
5 May
6-9pm
Opening times:
6-7 May
12-7pm
Admission is free. RSVP is required for Private View on 5th May.
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