Black Bricolage by Johny Pitts at MEP

Bringing together twenty years of visual research devoted to the African diaspora in Europe and around the world, Johny Pitts presents his project Black Bricolage in the MEP Studio.

Overview

In the second part of the season, the MEP welcomes the British artist Johny Pitts.

Photographs, archives, personal documents, and testimonies are interwoven through plays of reflection, blur, and assemblage, offering a subtle and nuanced representation of contemporary Afro-descendant experiences.

About The Artist

A writer, filmmaker, photographer, and journalist, Johny Pitts (born in 1987; lives and works in London) has developed a major body of work around Afropean identity, a concept describing the experience of being Black and European. From London to Lisbon, via Brussels and Berlin, he encounters Afrodescendant communities and brings back images of formal and documentary power.
The recipient of several distinctions, including the Decibel Penguin Prize and the ENAR (European Network Against Racism) Award, he has presented solo exhibitions at The Photographers’ Gallery in London in 2023 and at Foam in Amsterdam in 2020. His work is also part of the permanent collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum.