Tyler Mitchell takes inspiration from skateboarding, art history and British style mags to show how beauty, intimacy and empowerment are at the heart of the Black experience
Main image: ‘Subtle and complex’ … Tyler Mitchell’s Curtain Call, 2018. All photographs: Tyler Mitchell
Thu 16 Oct 2025 11.28 CEST
Untitled (Blue Laundry), 2019
Tyler Mitchell’s first solo exhibition in France reflects on a decade of practice by an artist who has introduced new visual narratives of Black life, centring beauty, intimacy and empowerment as everyday realities. Tracing nearly a decade of creation, it shows how Mitchell, one of the most striking voices of his generation, explores themes of utopia, memory and intimacy through representations of Black life. Wish This Was Real is showing at MEP Paris until 25 January 2026
