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

Christina Sharpe
& Rinaldo Walcott
Hyperallergic

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“The gallery becomes a space where presence is measured not by what is said but by what is felt, where empathy and attention are active, necessary acts. Attendees leave with a heightened awareness of how much meaning exists in the unsaid, how resilience is expressed in gesture as much as in voice. This is an exhibition that lingers beyond the gallery walls, insisting that the quietest moments often speak most powerfully. Goliath reveals the extraordinary force of attention itself.”

Simon Cartwright
Aesthetica

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Elegy

Performances
2015-

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Gabrielle Goliath, Elegy - Eunice Ntombifuthi Dube, 2018, Centre for the Less Good Idea, Johannesburg, photos by Stella Tate

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Gabrielle Goliath, Elegy - Joan Thabeng, 2018, Do Disturb Festival, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, photo by Ayka Lux

Gabrielle Goliath, Elegy - Sizakele Sigasa and Salome Masooa, 2018, Verbo Performance Art Festival, Saõ Paulo, photos courtesy Galeria Vermelho

Gabrielle Goliath, Elegy - Noluvo Swelindawo, 2017, ICA Live Art Festival, Cape Town, photos courtesy Institute for Creative Arts