Alexis Kyle Mitchell

24 May-2 Aug 2025

PV 23 May 2025, 6.30-8.30pm

Overview

Peer is pleased to present the first solo exhibition by New York and Glasgow-based artist and scholar, Alexis Kyle Mitchell. Encompassing video, film, performance and experimental collaboration, Mitchell’s work explores the politics of space, place, and embodiment in dialogue with questions of kinship and belonging. 

For her exhibition at Peer, Mitchell presents her hour-long film The Treasury of Human Inheritance (2024) in a new immersive installation. Combining hand-processed celluloid film with documentation of home-movie footage of her family and rituals for death and life after death, the film explores a family's experience of living with and alongside grief and disability. Central to the exhibition and its cinematic focus is an analogue synthesiser soundtrack created by Alexis’ collaborators Luke Flower and Richy Carey. Resonating throughout the gallery, the soundtrack mimics the looping gene patterns of the genetic condition, myotonic dystrophy. 

Alexis’ exhibition is part of Peer's 2025 Programme. The Treasury of Human Inheritance is an exhibition produced by Peer in collaboration with Site Gallery, Sheffield. The project is conceived in collaboration with Mason Leaver-Yap. The film was originally a co-commission by Glasgow International and The Vega Foundation.

Biography:

Alexis Kyle Mitchell is based between New York and Glasgow. Exhibitions include Glasgow International, Glasgow; GTA24 MOCA Triennial, Toronto; Henry Art Gallery, Seattle; Kunstverein Munich; and Mercer Union, Toronto; screenings at International Film Festival Rotterdam; Art of the Real, New York; and IndieLisboa International Film Festival, Lisbon; in performances at MOCAToronto; University of Toronto and the New School, New York. Residencies include Cove Park (Scotland); MacDowell (USA); Sommerakademie Paul Klee (Switzerland); and Akademie Schloss Solitude (Germany). Mitchell was a postdoctoral fellow at New York University in the Center for Disability Studies and is currently a visiting scholar in the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality.