Deborah-Joyce Holman

Deborah Joyce Holman is a multidisciplinary artist whose work spans sculpture, text, installation, image-making and film. Through her work, Holman investigates linguistics, authorship and strategies of refusal, such as opacity, perhaps taking reference from Édouard Glissant’s notion of Opacité. She also explores the blurring of fact, fiction and truth as a means of contending with the trappings of visibility, hypervisibility and (mis)representation. Holman has been interested in the figure of the trickster, who can operate within the framework of power but does not conform to societal ‘truths’, fluidly operating in the interstices, the in-between space. Holman is also a curator, having commissioned several solo exhibitions and programmed talks, concerts, texts and DJ mixes.