• Elegy
    • About
    • Three suites (Venice, 2026)
    • 10-channel installation (2024)
    • Performances (2015-2026)
    • Noluvo Swelindawo (portraits)
  • Bearing
  • Personal Accounts
    • About
    • The Giving Tree
    • a quiet rush
    • Mango Blossoms
    • Lago di Como
    • Salle d'écoute
    • Deinde Falase
    • There's a river...
  • Berenice
  • Beloved
  • These three remain
  • Chorus
  • This song is for...
    • This song is for...
    • This song is for... vol 1
  • Faces of people who...
  • Roulette
  • Stumbling Block
  • Galleria Raffaella Cortese
  • Studio Goliath
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Gabrielle Goliath

  • Elegy
    • About
    • Three suites (Venice, 2026)
    • 10-channel installation (2024)
    • Performances (2015-2026)
    • Noluvo Swelindawo (portraits)
  • Bearing
  • Personal Accounts
    • About
    • The Giving Tree
    • a quiet rush
    • Mango Blossoms
    • Lago di Como
    • Salle d'écoute
    • Deinde Falase
    • There's a river...
  • Berenice
  • Beloved
  • These three remain
  • Chorus
  • This song is for...
    • This song is for...
    • This song is for... vol 1
  • Faces of people who...
  • Roulette
  • Stumbling Block
  • Galleria Raffaella Cortese
  • Studio Goliath

“Nota soprattutto per le sue installazioni immersive, sonore e performative, l’artista torna qui a lavorare con oli, acquerelli e pastelli. E il titolo stesso nel suo significato contiene una molteplicità di sfumature: portare, sostenere, sopportare, reggere il peso di qualcosa o qualcuno. I corpi protagonisti, neri, brown, femme, queer, sono infatti corpi che sostengono il mondo pur rimanendone ai margini. Figure che sembrano chiedere continuamente quale sia il costo dell’esistere dentro sistemi di esclusione, violenza e invisibilità. Eppure, nelle opere di Goliath, questi stessi corpi non vengono mai restituiti come vittime, ma al contrario, emergono nella loro vulnerabilità luminosa, nella capacità di costruire intimità, desiderio e alleanza.”

Caterina Angelucci
Artribune

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“Collective grief, Goliath seems to propose in this body of work [Elegy] is a necessary tool for building solidarity — it constitutes a collective action, a precarious coalition of grievers, an impetus for change. How many revolutions have begun at a funeral? And, perhaps even more pointedly, how many atrocities have only deepened because of our failure to mourn?”

Aruna D’Souza
Hyperallergic

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“In Personal Accounts, Goliath transforms silence into a form of testimony that is urgent and unmissable. The intervals between words, the tremor of a shoulder, the pause of a breath, carry histories of survival that cannot be reduced to speech alone.”

Simon Cartwright
Aesthetica

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Statement, 18 Feb 2026

As the selected artist-curator team, we are profoundly disappointed by Justice Kubushi’s ruling. Our application was dismissed with no reasons given at this stage. The judge dismissed the application in two sentences, and a full week after hearing argument (on the afternoon of the Venice Biennale’s submission deadline for National Pavilion exhibition plans). It was also a shock to learn that she has ordered us to pay costs of the application, including costs of a senior and junior counsel. These are punitive measures, enacted against those the Department of Sport, Arts and Culture (DSAC) is mandated to support, and will certainly discourage others in the arts community from attempting to defend their constitutional rights in court.

We believe this ruling sets a dangerous precedent, jeopardising the rights of artists, curators and creatives in South Africa to freedom of expression – freedom to dissent. It goes without saying that we will be contesting this ruling through an appeal.

We are grateful to our legal team, and to all those who have encouraged us and mobilised on our behalf. We ask that you continue to journey with us, as, in the spirit of Elegy, we refuse conditions of disregard and dare to think and dream the world differently.

- Gabrielle Goliath, Ingrid Masondo & James Macdonald