05/05/2026
Opening on the 29th of May at Rabbet in Peckham’s Copeland Park, ‘Rewild: Navigating Space’ brings together four photographers in a collaborative exploration of the relationship between the self and the environment. To rewild is to return something to its natural state, allowing organic processes to take over and reinitiate a sense of the fundamental. In this exhibition, navigation becomes the avenue through which these artists explore that return, using the camera not only as a tool for documentation but also as a meditative and therapeutic practice. By placing their works in a shared space, the artists enter into a dialogue with one another, creating a collective reflection on how we inhabit and make sense of the worlds we occupy.
The exhibition moves between the interior and the exterior, comparing the psychological landscape of the mind with the physical structures of the world. Ciaran Inns’ ongoing project revisits nature through the lens of childhood memory and adult reflection, reconstructing moments of discovery through staged portraits and ritual objects that blur the line between play and adulthood. In contrast, Eia Hopkinson’s ‘How to Sit Like a Girl’ studies the urban and social architecture of space, foregrounding the tension felt by female bodies in environments designed around a default that is not their own. Where Hopkinson explores the body’s forced adaptation to the exterior, Léa Chens ‘Gone in the Wind’ looks inward to capture the feeling of dissociation. Her figures exist in a dreamlike, suspended stillness, capturing the moment where the physical and mental worlds drift apart. Expanding this idea into the overlooked, Tanja Krebs’ ‘Rooting Within’ uses ultramacro photography to reveal minerals and organic forms as intricate, hidden landscapes, reminding the viewer of the life that exists in the smallest structures of our environment.
‘Rewild: Navigating Space’ will be on view at Rabbet, Copeland Park, 133 Copeland Rd, London SE15 3SN, from 29 May to 31 May 2026. The Private View is on the evening of 28 May from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM. For further information, please contact Imogen Levin at [email protected]