{"id":63823,"date":"2026-04-27T13:01:05","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T12:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/londoncult.co.uk\/?p=63823"},"modified":"2026-04-27T13:02:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T12:02:27","slug":"exhibition-here-not-there-what-does-it-feel-like-to-belong-nowhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/londoncult.co.uk\/en\/exhibition-here-not-there-what-does-it-feel-like-to-belong-nowhere\/","title":{"rendered":"Exhibition \u00abHere (Not) There\u00bb: What Does It Feel Like To Belong Nowhere?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

On view across two interconnected spaces, the exhibition brings together eight bodies of work \u2014 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 \u2014 or only about how we see it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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After Nature. Photo by Evgeniya Strygina<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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 \u2014 present, but belonging nowhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Strygina<\/a> would soon find herself in a similar state \u2014 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI started by photographing places. Somewhere along the way, I began photographing the feeling of not quite being in them\u201d, \u2014 Evgeniya Strygina.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Home from Home. Photo by Evgeniya Strygina<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Home from Home. Photo by Evgeniya Strygina<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Strygina\u2019s work has been published by Autograph, London, and featured in Fisheye Magazine and The Royal Photographic Society\u2019s WE ARE Magazine. She was exhibited at Photo|Frome Festival and was a finalist in the Photometria Awards\u2019 Emerging Roots competition, judged by Martin Parr. Her photobook Home from Home was published by Ephemere, Tokyo, in 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Private View: Tuesday 5 May, 6\u20139pm<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Exhibition: 6\u20137 May, 12\u20137pm<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Artist-led tours: 6 & 7 May, 3pm and 5pm<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Address: 200 Battersea Park Rd, London SW11 4ND<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Free entry. RSVP for Private View: cicekgallery.com<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What does it feel like to belong nowhere \u2014 neither in the place you left nor in the place you arrived? These questions are at the centre of here (not) there, a solo exhibition by visual artist Evgeniya Strygina, opening on 5 May at Cicek Gallery in Battersea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63828,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"type_post":[184],"column":[],"class_list":["post-63823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/londoncult.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/londoncult.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/londoncult.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londoncult.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londoncult.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63823"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/londoncult.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63827,"href":"https:\/\/londoncult.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63823\/revisions\/63827"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londoncult.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/londoncult.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londoncult.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londoncult.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63823"},{"taxonomy":"type_post","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londoncult.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/type_post?post=63823"},{"taxonomy":"column","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londoncult.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/column?post=63823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}