Body of Evidence at the Royal Academy (2025)
Holder’s practice is rooted in embodied research, ancestral inquiry, and the affective residues of archival labor.
Body of Evidence is a intervention-based video work that places the artist’s body in silent, unscripted dialogue with institutional archives from Washington D.C. to Berlin, Germany. Through gestures that are at once subtle, strained, and deliberate, Holder intervenes within spaces historically structured to catalog and contain memory. These corporeal acts do not seek to interpret the archive but rather to unsettle it, foregrounding the body as both a site and method of knowing.
LIMBO is an artist book with ephemera, US military dog tags, stationary clips, and mixed media remnants, (2025), 19 cm x 24 cm. LIMBO gathers fragments from Lorenzo Piero Holder III’s investigative process including ephemera from the Library of Congress, US military dog tags, and stationary accessories from the Federal Archive in Berlin. The materials are assembled into an artist book that exists between document and altar. Each page holds traces of physical art making and archival inquiry, offering a quiet negotiation between presence and absence, testimony and residue.
Body of Evidence (2025) at the Smithsonian Museum for African-American Art and Culture.