Myriam Mihindou brings her rituals of repair to London in major UK debut at Phillida Reid

Common Skin, Myriam Mihindou’s first solo exhibition in the UK, presents an overview of the Paris-based, French-Gabonese artist’s practice from 1999 to the present day, following her major survey Praesentia at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris and CRAC Occitanie, Sète (2024-2025). Rooted in the body, Mihindou’s work consists of material traces of what she has termed “ritualised creative processes”; concrete outputs or releases resulting from individual or collective performative actions. Common Skin aims to offer an insight into the language of Mihindou’s practice across sculpture, photography, collage and video. “I conceive of my plastic and visual works as sluice gates, or decompression chambers, that allow bodies to become restored, awoken, and healed.” Mihindou’s work, in its use of healing or ritually