First London Solo Show for Beyoncé Photographer
Gagosian
Tyler Mitchell, Chrysalis is the first solo exhibition in London by the 27-year-old photography phenom who famously shot Beyoncé for her 2018 Vogue cover story. A fascinating collection of images of youth coming with nature, each is infused with a unique sense of serenity and spirituality. Black beauty captured apart from everyday social expectations.
Tyler Mitchell, Chrysalis is the first solo exhibition in London by the 27-year-old photography phenom who famously shot Beyoncé for her 2018 Vogue cover story. A fascinating collection of images of youth coming with nature, each is infused with a unique sense of serenity and spirituality. Black beauty captured apart from everyday social expectations.
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London, UK
Sept 17 - Nov 12, 2022
Hours
Mon - Fri 10AM - 6PM
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Gagosian is pleased to present Chrysalis, an exhibition of new photographs by Tyler Mitchell. Opening September 17, it will be the gallery’s first solo exhibition of works by Mitchell, and his first in London. Mitchell’s photographs and videos propose a utopian vision of Black beauty, desire, and belonging. For Chrysalis, he has produced photographs of youthful subjects in nature. Shot on location in upstate New York and in studios in New York and London in 2022, the images allude to the contemporary landscape while reflecting on the history of photographic images of Black people, particularly in the American South. Playfully theatrical and surreal, the works focus on Black figures and the landscapes they inhabit, incorporating visual signifiers of spirituality, transformation, and aspiration. "Collectively, these moments become figments of an imaginative psychic state of being, one in which radiance, resistance, restraint, comfort, and full human agency exist." - Tyler Mitchell
- Gagosian
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