Screening and discussion: TYLER MITCHELL & BRENDAN EMBSER

Saturday 26th of October 2024 at 3-5 pm
Finnish Museum of Photography, K1, Kämp Galleria, Mikonkatu 1, 00100 Helsinki
Language: English
Entrance: Museum ticket, art students for free

On Saturday, October 26, we will show Tyler Mitchell’s video works Wish This Was Real (2015) and Chasing Pink, Found Red (2019), after which Mitchell will speak with curator Brendan Embser from Aperture about the exhibition’s themes, photography as a space for dreaming, and the influence of the New Black Vanguard movement on visual culture.

Wish This Was Real presents nearly a decade of photography by Tyler Mitchell, who propels a visual narrative of beauty, utopia, and the landscape that expands visions of Black life. Driven by dreams of paradise against the backdrop of American history, his photographs embrace the extraordinary radiance of the everyday.

Wish This Was Real is Mitchell’s first exhibition in the Nordics, and spans a dynamic artistic practice, from portraits made in the United States, Europe, and West Africa, to his latest prints on fabric and mirrors. Seeking to convey moments of play and human connection, Mitchell traces photography’s vital role in shaping a visual realm in which refuge and repose are central.

Wish This Was Real is curated by Brendan Embser, senior editor at Aperture, and Sophia Greiff, C/O Berlin Foundation, in collaboration with Tyler Mitchell Studios.

More information: Orlan Ohtonen (orlan.ohtonen@fmp.fi)