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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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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

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 Email
Instagram

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

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


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).

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.