Varvara Uhlik's Sanatorium Crimea enters its final days at Huxley-Parlour's Swallow Street space in London, closing on 6 October 2026. The exhibition was singled out by critic Tabish Khan, writing as @LondonArtCritic, among his top gallery shows to see in the capital this October. The works begin with the Ukrainian artist's own family photograph archive — and then remove the people. Through digital alteration, figures are lifted out of the images, leaving behind emptied rooms, landscapes and interiors. The effect is quietly haunting: familiar snapshots of leisure and togetherness become scenes of absence. What sharpens the work is where the photographs were taken: a Soviet military resort on the Crimean Peninsula, a site now occupied and operated by Russia. The erased figures turn personal mementoes into something stranger — holiday pictures that read as evidence of disappearance. In the process the gesture recalls the Soviet state's own long history of retouching inconvenient people out of official photographs, folding a private archive into a much darker public history of manipulation. For viewers in London, the closing days offer a last chance to see a show that connects intimate family memory to geopolitics with unusual economy: a handful of altered photographs, and the pasts that can be edited out of them. Khan placed the show at the head of his October selection for the capital. It hangs at the gallery's Swallow Street space, 3–5 Swallow Street in Mayfair, and its 6 October closing makes these the last days to see a body of work that turns family snapshots into meditations on erasure, occupation and the malleability of the photographic record.