Using visual seduction to draw audiences into deeper conversations, Joy Gregory’s work challenges reductive expectations around what Black or feminist art should look like; asserting instead a need for nuance.  

This richly illustrated monograph surveys Joy Gregory’s forty-year career. Working across photography, video, installation, textile and text, Joy Gregory foregrounds themes of cultural memory, language-loss, beauty, fantasy and diasporic identity. Essays by leading scholars situate her practice as a vital contribution to global discourses on race, gender and the politics of seeing.