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Deborah-Joyce Holman

Close-Up
Close-Up/ Quiet as it's kept

Love Letter

Spill I-III

Moment 2 

Beautiful and tough as chestnut/ stanchions against our
nightmare of weakness

Moment
Untitled (for scale)
 Untitled (in rage)
Unless
Maybe intensely so, or not at all, but definitely mistaken - unhinged, unbound
Untitled (in refusal)
A Glare (Glimpse)
Thicc and Slippery
A Soft Spiral
 These notes are spread through rtf, ig and pages i’ve marked but never re-read

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©2024

Deborah-Joyce Holman

Close-Up
Close-up/ Quiet as it's kept

Love Letter 
Spill I-III

Moment 2 
Beautiful and tough as chestnut/ stanchions against our nightmare of weakness
Moment
Untitled (for scale)
 Untitled (in rage)
Unless
Maybe intensely so, or not at all, but definitely mistaken - unhinged, unbound
Loss
Untitled (in refusal)
A Glare (Glimpse)
Thicc and Slippery
A Soft Spiral
 These notes are spread through rtf, ig and pages i’ve marked but never re-read

Bio / CV
 Email
Instagram

©2022
Installation view at TANK Shanghai. Courtesy: TANK Shanghai & the artist.

Close-up/ Quiet as it's kept 
2023
3-channel 4k UHD video
Stereo sound, consisting of a single channel projection (16:33 min, looped) and a double channel projection (8:16 min, looped), each with sound


Installation view at TANK Shanghai. Courtesy: TANK Shanghai & the artist.


Film Still.


Installation view at TANK Shanghai. Courtesy: TANK Shanghai & the artist.


Installation view at TANK Shanghai. Courtesy: TANK Shanghai & the artist.


Installation view at TANK Shanghai. Courtesy: TANK Shanghai & the artist.


Installation view at Kunsthalle Bern.  Photo: Gunnar Meier. Courtesy: Kunsthalle Bern & the artist.


Installation view at TANK Shanghai. Courtesy: TANK Shanghai & the artist.


Installation view at Kunsthalle Bern. Photo: Gunnar Meier. Courtesy: Kunsthalle Bern & the artist.


Installation view at TANK Shanghai. Courtesy: TANK Shanghai & the artist.


Installation view at Kunsthalle Bern. Photo: Gunnar Meier. Courtesy: Kunsthalle Bern & the artist.


Film Still.


Installation view at Kunsthalle Bern. Photo: Gunnar Meier. Courtesy: Kunsthalle Bern & the artist.

Film by Deborah Joyce Holman
Actress - Tia Bannon
Extra - Celine Pierron
Producer - Tobi Kyeremateng
Assistant Producer - Priya Palak
Shoot Producer - Hannah Naomi
Production Runner - KC Ugwu
Studio Assistant - Shantelle Palmer
Director of Photography - Adenike Oke
Camera Assistant - Joy Kisuka
Gaffer - Ramzey Sabbagh
Gaffer - Jamie Hitchens
Spark - Sam Saunders
Spark - Alexander Styles
Production Designer - Elizabeth Anibaba
Art Assistant - Hannah Naomi
Prop Supervisor and Driver - Hamish Mckerchar
Stylist - Seyon Amosu
Stylist Assistant - Yufial Fari
Stylist Assistant - Joram Siguio
Hair and Makeup - Lauryn Brown
Hair and Makeup - Rashida Blair
Editor - Deborah Joyce Holman
Colorist - Anibal Castaño
Sound Designer - Chad Orororo
BTS Photographer - Xanthus Peters

With thanks to Bernice Mulenga, Casey George, Dominique White, Ebun Sodipo, GLO Film Lighting, James Bantone, Jelena Luise, Jim C. Nedd, Julia Grosse, Kabelo Malatsie, KJ Abudu, Latoya Fits, MCX Films, Mearg Negusse, Mohamed Almusibli, Nana Adusei-Poku and Wisrah Villefort.

Close-up/Quiet as it’s kept is commissioned by Kunsthalle Bern and made possible with the additional generous support by ProHelvetia and Curt und Erna Burgauer Stiftung.