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“Grace Before Jones: Camera, Disco, Studio"
Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham
Runs through January 3, 2021History is flawed. What we know about art and artists is far too often dependent on what the person behind the camera sees; how someone on the other side of a computer interprets a gesture or phrase; on the voyeur observing the muse and moment. That is, unless you’re Grace Jones.
In a new exhibit devoted to “the armada of Grace,” fanfiction, study, and biography collide to travel through her career—from “disco queen to dub cyborg, Jamaican to French, runway model to nightclub performer, Black to white, feminine to masculine.” The result, per the gallery? “Both a historical background and contemporary perspective to Grace Jones’ image-making … and the art of self-reinvention.”
