Tiyana Mitchell & Tallulah Hutson

Seams & Veils: Bodies, Archives, and the Threshold of Seeing is a Dubai exhibition presenting new work by Tiyana Mitchell and Tallulah Hutson, two painters whose practices approach the image as a site of tension—between access and obstruction, intimacy and distance, celebration and unease.

Tiyana Mitchell works from photographic archives—family histories, anonymous images, and circulating fragments—reframing what a photograph can hold when it is mediated by paint. Through cropping, partial concealment, and subtle shifts in focus, her paintings explore how identity, memory, and belonging are constructed, interrupted, and preserved.

Tallulah Hutson’s figurative paintings move with the heightened charge of music, dance, and emotional release. Her compositions turn the everyday into something mythic: bodies become conduits for ecstasy and vulnerability, held in atmospheres that oscillate between pleasure and crisis. Together, Mitchell and Hutson build a visual language of thresholds—where what is hidden becomes as powerful as what is revealed.

Spanning archival traces and embodied immediacy, the exhibition asks: what do we see when images are veiled, when history is stitched together, and when the body becomes an instrument for survival, joy, and defiance?