Deborah-Joyce Holman

Deborah-Joyce Holman is a London-based artist working in painting and moving image. Holman's practice is informed by strategies of refusal: a term that describes the deliberate use of opacity and illegibility as counter-hegemonic positions that resist dominant systems of representation. For their first solo exhibition in a UK institution, Holman will develop a new video installation. The work extends their ongoing thinking into the psychic labour demanded of Black subjects by structures of recognition, drawing on Black poetics and theories of opacity to explore what it might mean to withhold, rather than perform, legibility.