Lyu Chirkova

PLAY WITH ME @lyuart London, 2026 55x40x20 cm A candy-pink rocking horse bristling with nails and spikes transforms play into peril. Childlike movement persists, but comfort is weaponised - innocence sharpened into endurance, where tenderness and threat quietly coexist.

MY HOME IS… Debut solo exhibition @lyuart Curated by @arina.baburskova Private View 29 January, 6–9pm Exhibition Dates 30 January – 22 February 2026 Location Roha Gallery @rohagallery_london G01 Tradestars Islington 4–10 North Road London, N7 9EY

DEADDY BEAR bags @theindigostuff x @manicure_vampire Limited edition Shop now: Creative Director @lyuart

Angel Station @lyuart Ph: @nastysiko Assist: @arina.baburskova Suite: @iamgia

HOW ARE YOU jacket @lyuart @theindigostuff White leather jacket fully covered with hand-burned “How are you” text and drawings. A repeated question turned into texture, trace, and state. Hand-beaded label.

DUST COVER @lyuart Is a fashion object made from dozens of branded garment dust bags. Ph: @nastysiko Assist: @arina.baburskova

@lyuart 1. IT’S ME London, 2025 48x39xd14 cm A lamp crowned with a plasticine head, pierced with green spikes and adorned with the Lyu’s own earrings - a self-portrait in disguise? A body, an object, a light source, it stages identity as something assembled, illuminated, and gently unprotected. 2. COLLECT YOURSELF! London, 2026 42xd16 cm Reassembled from broken ceramic shards, the vase holds together through visible repair. Fracture becomes structure, and restoration becomes new form - a fragile container shaped by interruption, persistence, and the ongoing effort to remain whole. In Russia, they say broken glass can bring happiness - could this one? 3. CARRY ON London, 2026 33x52x24 cm A small suitcase covered in international power adapters - movable monument to constant adjustment. Designed for motion, it’s weighed down by the need to connect and convert, turning the suitcase into a portable infrastructure where belonging is not fixed, but continuously negotiated. 4. ANXIOUS CHAIR London, 2025 46x80x40 cm Wrapped in layers of crocheted yarn and scattered with smiling faces, the chair becomes a soft archive of restlessness. Each stitch records a moment of unease, turning anxiety into shelter - a domestic object slowly remade through repetition, touch, and the quiet labour of self-soothing. [email protected]

BUTTONED BAG @lyuart Ph: @nastysiko Assist: @arina.baburskova

SMASHED WORLD @lyuart London, 2026 35x28 cm A school globe coated in thick, colourful plasticine, softened and reshaped by touch. Borders blur and wobble - it’s a world in motion, refusing fixed lines. A playground for meditation, it asks: if the world is always shifting, can home exist anywhere? Or is home, always, yourself?

@lyuart Ph: @nastysiko Assist: @arina.baburskova

MELTED SILHOUETTES @lyuart London, 2026 125x175 cm A familiar pattern taken from Lyu’s childhood in Mozhga, Udmurt Republic is repeated in a soft, pliable plasticine, drifting across its plywood base like a memory in motion. Familiar shapes sag and swell, bending into one another, folding comfort into uncertainty. A recollection of familiar silhouettes, it stages home as something mutable - inviting touch, resisting stillness, and quietly reshaping what it means to belong.

‘Home is not architecture or a fixed address, but a sense of stability that is constantly shifting.’ Thank you Victoria Comstock-Kershaw @rothkosgirlfriend and FETCH London @fetch.london for such a thoughtful reading of My Home Is… curated by @arina.baburskova on view at @rohagallery_london