Gabrielle Goliath

“Goliath’s practice is grounded in that recovery, with works that test how art can create space for trauma to unfold and unfurl – to be worked through relationally, laterally, personally – in the name of restoration through recognition. That is, to hold space for witnessing as much as to bear witness; not through language nor the intellectualisation of the horrors of systemic violence, but through the complex web of emotions and states that define its ever-shifting and far-reaching textures, both within the body and without.”

Stephanie Bailey,
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Elegy - for two ancestors

performance
2024

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Elegy - for two ancestors, 2024, performance, Stranieri Ovunque – Foreigners Everywhere, La Biennale di Venezia (2024), photos by J Macdonald

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Performance I
14:00, 21 November 2024, Sale d’Armi, Venice
Performers: Rachel Duckett, Claudia Graziadei, Makeda Monnet, Isabella Moore, Roberta Philip, Patrícia Silveira, Roxanne Tataeii

Performance II
14:00, 22 November 2024, Sale d’Armi, Venice
Performers: Leila Alexander, Rachel Duckett, Makeda Monnet, Isabella Moore, Roberta Philip, Patrícia Silveira, Roxanne Tataeii

In acknowledgement of those displaced, starved, interned and killed in the Ovaherero and Nama Genocide (1904-1908); and to the continued struggle of Nama and Herero communities fighting for reparation and repair on their own terms.

Special thanks to Adriano Pedrosa, Prof Deborah Thomas, Dr Zoé Samudzi, and the Center for Experimental Ethnography, University of Pennsylvania.