Genesis was honoured to have recently produced Duratrans prints for Joy Gregory’s solo exhibition of her early works, presented by Huxley-Parlour at Frieze Masters.
Over the past four decades, Gregory has established herself as a vital voice in contemporary British art. Her multidisciplinary practice spans photography, performance, video and installation, addressing themes of history, identity, and self-definition. Working with both historic and experimental processes, Gregory’s practice foregrounds questions of cultural memory and belonging, situating personal narratives within broader social and political histories.
The presentation highlights the continuity of her practice, tracing connections between her engagement with performance, visibility and photography’s experimental and material possibilities. In this series of work, Gregory created monochromatic studio sets that function as a backdrop of her figurative studies and self portraits. Made between 1983-85, a time in which experimentation with colour photography remained incredibly rare, Gregory’s work revels in the possibilities of the medium: multiple exposures, studies of light and the use of transparency film lend the photographs a spectral, time-suspended quality.