Gabrielle Goliath

“The single note in Elegy is equal parts clarion call and durational rejection of mourning’s expected temporality. The performativity of Goliath’s practice lies in its metabolic urgency: its response to the necrographic commitment to one another, and to the dead whose memory comprises the shared memorial responsibility of the living.”

Zoé Samudzi
Mousse Magazine

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“Conceived as an act of collective ritual mourning in response to the murder of journalism student Ipeleng Christine Moholane, the work epitomises Goliath’s conceptually profound yet tender approach to one of the most harrowing realities of life in contemporary South Africa: the prevalence of gender-based violence.”

Apollo 40

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“Elegy is wound and medicine when mourning itself is under threat.”

Christina Sharpe
& Rinaldo Walcott
Hyperallergic

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Personal Accounts (Mango Blossoms)

22-channel video & sound installation
2024

Personal Accounts (Mango Blossoms), 2024, 22-channel video & sound installation, installation views, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh (2024/5), photos by Sally Jubb