JOAN presents The Goal of Our Health, a solo exhibition by Alexis Kyle Mitchell, a New York and Glasgow–based artist and filmmaker. The exhibition marks the Los Angeles premiere of Mitchell’s 2024 feature-length film The Treasury of Human Inheritance and features newly commissioned works including an expanding series of short, silent films, sculptural and archival elements, and public programming. Mitchell’s practice unfolds across experimental film, installation, and performance, drawing bodies, histories, and social systems into tactile, immersive explorations. Her work interweaves themes of disability, memory, and kinship, inviting collective reflection through material and embodied experience.
Together, these works at JOAN form The Goal of Our Health, an expansive project that questions how ideals of health, movement, and ability shape science, technology, and the body—often in ways still haunted by the legacies of eugenics-based thinking and practice. Mitchell’s process is collaborative and embodied, drawing from archival research, community workshops, personal relationships, and non-toxic analog film practices.
