On view across two interconnected spaces, the exhibition brings together eight bodies of work — from early photographs of landscapes that look too composed to be real, to an intimate investigation of displacement, identity, and what home is actually made of. Hovering somewhere between photography and fiction, they ask whether a photograph can tell the truth about a place — or only about how we see it.

A textile installation takes that question further: an image of a construction site draped in fabric printed with a forest is reprinted onto another layer of fabric, creating a recursive loop in which representation replaces reality until the copy has no original left — present, but belonging nowhere.

Strygina would soon find herself in a similar state — not watching it from behind a camera, but living it as a person who had lost their place. Having relocated to the UK, she turned her lens toward people navigating that same condition: immigrants rebuilding a sense of home from memory, ritual, and the few things they carried with them, and the strange experience of returning to a city that remained perfectly familiar yet felt, each time, less like home.

“I started by photographing places. Somewhere along the way, I began photographing the feeling of not quite being in them”, — Evgeniya Strygina.

Strygina’s work has been published by Autograph, London, and featured in Fisheye Magazine and The Royal Photographic Society’s WE ARE Magazine. She was exhibited at Photo|Frome Festival and was a finalist in the Photometria Awards’ Emerging Roots competition, judged by Martin Parr. Her photobook Home from Home was published by Ephemere, Tokyo, in 2025.

Private View: Tuesday 5 May, 6–9pm

Exhibition: 6–7 May, 12–7pm

Artist-led tours: 6 & 7 May, 3pm and 5pm

Address: 200 Battersea Park Rd, London SW11 4ND

Free entry. RSVP for Private View: cicekgallery.com