Nottingham Contemporary | Autumn / Winter 2020 Exhibitions Programme Virtual Exhibitions

Grace Before Jones: Camera, Disco, Studio

A cross between fan-fiction, study and biography, Grace Before Jones: Camera, Disco, Studio departs from the iconic singer’s career and her collaborations with artists, designers, photographers and musicians to question black image-making and gender binarism as well as both performance and the performance of life.

In 1979, Grace Jones had her face moulded by her collaborator and then-partner Jean-Paul Goude to produce multiple ultra-realist masks. Thes...