Alexis Kyle Mitchell: The Goal of Our Health

24 May-2 Aug 2025

PV 23 May 2025, 6-8pm

Overview

Peer is pleased to present The Goal of Our Health, Alexis Kyle Mitchell’s first solo exhibition in the UK. The New York and Glasgow-based artist works across the mediums of moving image, performance and experimental collaboration. This exhibition encompasses all three as it deepens Mitchell’s interest in the politics of space, place, and embodiment. 

The exhibition comprises two works: Mitchell’s hour-long film The Treasury of Human Inheritance (2024) in a new immersive installation; and Plates (2025), a new series of short 16mm black and white film ‘screen tests’. The Goal of Our Health brings these works into dialogue to interrogate how idealised notions of health, movement and ability influence science, technology and the body. The work attends to the ideological origins of the eugenics movement, the shadows of which we continue to live with today. 

The Goal of Our Health is part of Peer’s 2025 Programme and is accompanied by a series of events as part of our Talks, Events and Workshops programme.

Screening times: The Treasury of Human Inheritance is 60 minutes long and screenings at Peer Gallery begin on the hour from 12pm, with the last screening at 5pm.

The Goal of Our Health is an exhibition produced by Peer in collaboration with Site Gallery, Sheffield and is conceived in collaboration with Mason Leaver-Yap. 

The exhibition is supported by the Alexis Kyle Mitchell Supporters Circle and Canada Council for the Arts. With thanks to Spike Island Exhibition Services and Sophie Crichton-Stuart.

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.