inter_missions(s)
Open to view
APR.18-19.2026
WITH WORKS BY Henna Hyvärinen, Pippa Filippa and Melania Trejo Méndez
ON VIEW
During Bermuda Open Studios
Sat. & Sun: 11:00-18:00
How is identity constructed, and through which conditions does it take shape? Henna Hyvärinen, Pippa Filippa and Melania Trejo Méndezand—three artists who share studio space at The Balcony, present Open to view, an exhibition that approaches identity as a relational, embodied, and continuous practice.
Working across video, photography, and installation, their works trace how identity emerges through overlapping forces, or what Kimberlé Crenshaw describes as intersecting structures: language and cultural memory, the lived and mediated experience of the body, social encounters, material exchange and acts of participation. In this sense, identity cannot be understood as fixed, but as a process of becoming, where personal and collective experiences are constantly shaped by multiple, simultaneous conditions. This is reflected in the artists’ use of autobiographical strategies alongside open, participatory gestures that invite visitors into the work itself.
Presented in the context of Bermuda Open Studios, the exhibition opens the studio space as a site of encounter—between artists and visitors, between finished works and ongoing processes. The artists welcome everyone to visit.
ABOUT
Henna Hyvärinen (Finland) works primarily in video, using autobiographical and autofictional strategies to examine how identity is shaped by social and cultural structures. Since completing the De Ateliers residency (2017-2019), her work has approached questions of language, identity and cultural representation from a transnational perspective. Last year she completed her first feature-length film, Lähin Sugu - Next of Kin (2025), a firsthand documentary exploring Karelian identity, assimilation and the resilience of one of the world’s critically endangered languages across three generations.
Melania Trejo Méndez (Mexico City) is an artist, activist and educator whose practice is rooted in feminist, queer and decolonial thought. Working across installation, sculpture, writing and participatory formats, she explores the tension between personal and political freedom in the context of hyper-capitalism and the climate crisis. Her work brings together material research and community-based processes, often engaging unconventional and “radical” matter such as human hair, fibres and living plants to examine identity, memory and human–nonhuman relationships.
Pippa Filippa (Netherlands) intervenes in the layers of the photograph itself, disrupting how we read an image to ask deeper questions about the self, identity and the limits of representation -what it can and cannot reveal. Their current work is a preview of their graduation project (KABK, July 2026), titled Fig.22. In this project, they reflect on their recent breast reduction experience to open conversation about autonomy, the construction of self-image, and the illusion of control and authorship over our own bodies.
This proposal is part of Inter_misssion(s), in which The Balcony gives space to proposals parallel to its main exhibition programmes
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