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.
