“In an essay for e-flux Journal titled Beauty Is a Method, writer and academic Christina Sharpe asks us to consider “what beauty as a method might mean or do: what it might break open, rupture, make possible and impossible, how we might carry beauty’s knowledge with us and make new worlds.” In a new retrospective at Whitechapel Gallery, Catching Flies with Honey, artist and photographer Joy Gregory offers a compelling reply to Sharpe’s question. Gregory cultivates beauty in her practice through her focus and medium, both crucial to how she captures and maintains attention. “If you make work that is very beautiful that people want to look at, you can work with some very difficult subjects that the viewer may disagree with, but will engage with it regardless, due to its aesthetic value. I think that’s a seduction in itself,” the artist explains.”
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Written by Zara Afthab