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Tyler Mitchell ‘Chrysalis’, a picture by Tyler Mitchell, portrays a young sleeping man under a mosquito net. Eyes wide shut, he appears to be navigating the complex folds of a dream, the past and present in surreal collision. Mitchell is intrigued by compositional layering like this. His work, he tells Rianna Jade Parker, is coated in a barely visible atmosphere, a strangeness that tugs it back many years, to the nostalgia of youth, family and our natural surroundings. His debut solo show in London presents images that tap on the history of Black life within the American south, talking to a ‘fundamental resilience, radiance and full human agency’ in its people. The netting, invisible or not, through which his work is filtered is...