Deborah-Joyce Holman’s Quietly Radical Black Femininity

Through abstraction and nonlinearity, Holman invests in cinematic practices that unseat “spectacle” as the prominent mode of Black representation.

Deborah-Joyce Holman’s Quietly Radical Black Femininity
Deborah-Joyce Holman, “Close-Up” (2024), film still (all photos courtesy Swiss Institute/the artist)