"Rethinking Eastern Europe" by Maria Gvardeitseva at Photo London, London, UK

The project is presented as part of Photo London 2026, where the artist collective Rethinking Eastern Europe has been invited to the fair’s eleventh edition in its new location at Olympia in Kensington.

Within this context, Maria Gvardeitseva’s work forms a poetic exploration of Holocaust mass grave sites across Eastern Europe, showing how nature absorbs and preserves histories of trauma. By foregrounding landscapes as silent witnesses, her project both resonates with the fair’s broader interest in how identities are shaped and reclaimed across borders and extends the collective’s engagement with memory, intergenerational history and post‑socialist experience.