The Goal of Our Health

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.