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Deborah-Joyce Holman

Set
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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Deborah-Joyce Holman

Set
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

©2025
Installation view at Archivio Storico Comunale, Palermo. Photo: Iolanda Carollo. Courtesy: Istituto Svizzero, Rome & the artist.  

Spill I-III 
2022
3-channel film, 4K UHD
5.1 surround sound
14min


Installation view at Archivio Storico Comunale, Palermo. Photo: Iolanda Carollo. Courtesy: Istituto Svizzero, Rome & the artist.  


Installation view at Archivio Storico Comunale, Palermo. Photo: Iolanda Carollo. Courtesy: Istituto Svizzero, Rome & the artist.  


Photo: Iolanda Carollo
. Courtesy: Istituto Svizzero, Rome & the artist.  


Film Still
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Film Still
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Film Still.

Film by Deborah Joyce Holman
Performers - Phoebe Collings-James, Bernice Mulenga, Mawena Yehouessi
Director of Photography - Jim C. Nedd
Camera Operator - Antonio Annese
Sound Recordist - Sebastiano Caceffo
Producer - Letizia Gullo
Production assistant - Shantelle Palmer
Styling - Alice Lushima
Editing - Deborah Joyce Holman
Colour Grade - Andrea Vavassori
Score - Yantan Ministry
Vocalist - Makeda Monnet, Deborah Joyce Holman
Field recordings - Deborah Joyce Holman
Mixing & Mastering - Fitzrovia Post

Conceived by Deborah Joyce Holman & Tarek Lakhrissi, with some images directed by Tarek Lakhrissi.
Featuring Nisha Ramayya’s poem Joy of the Eyes, published in States of the Body produced by Love (Ignota, 2019).

Spill I-III is commissioned by Istituto Svizzero in co-production with Confort Moderne Poitiers, Nottingham Contemporary and Shedhalle Zurich, upon original proposition by Caroline Honorien.

Special thanks - Clelia Bartoli, Canan Batur, Phila Bergmann, Yann Chevallier, Gioia Dal Molin, Thea Reifler, Marged Siôn, Maxim Young.