Ginny On Frederick

About the Gallery
Ginny on Frederick is a gallery in London’s Smithfield Market, founded in 2020. It’s named after founder Freddie Powell’s mother, and the street where the first branch opened on Frederick Terrace, in Hackney.

About the presentation
Ginny on Frederick will present Moment 2, a video installation by Deborah Joyce Holman. The nine-hour film stars the artist Rebecca Bellantoni reciting excerpts from Portrait of Jason, Shirley Clarke’s 1967 documentary interview with the gay Black performer and sex worker Jason Holliday. Holman’s reinterpretation offers a meditation on the politics of portraiture, complicating the dynamic, temporality, gender and race relations present in the original version. Like much of the artist’s practice, this video questions ideas of representation and critiques the consumption of Black trauma portrayed in visual culture.