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Gabrielle Goliath

Selected Artworks

Oil stick and pigment on Somerset paper
Oil stick and pigment on Somerset paper
Oil stick and pigment on Fabriano Rosaspina Avorio 285gsm
Oil stick and pigment on Magnani Pescia soft white 300gsm
Paper: 67 x 57 cm
(2) 11-channel 4K video, sound, lighting, floor cushions and vinyl text.
Variable Dimensions
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Seven channel HD video with sound and colour
Variable Dimensions
2-channel video & sound installation
Variable Dimensions
five channel video installation of digital video and sound
Variable Dimensions

About

Gabrielle Goliath image

Through the ritual, sonic and social encounters of her art practice, Gabrielle Goliath (b.1983, South Africa) attends (and tends) to histories and present-day conditions of differentially valued life, reaffirming ways in which black, brown, femme and queer practices of possibility perform the world differently. Each of her works convenes a coming-to – a tenuous community – collapsing the presumed remove and privileged subject position of representation (as white, male, heteronormative) and calling for meetings in and across difference, on terms of complicity, relation and love.

Goliath’s immersive, often durational installations have shown across South Africa and internationally. She has won several awards including a Future Generation Art Prize – Special Prize (2019), the Standard Bank Young Artist Award (2019), and the Institut Français, Afrique en Créations Prize at the Bamako Biennale (2017). Her work features in numerous public and private collections, including Kunsthalle Zürich, TATE Modern, Frac Bretagne, Iziko South African National Gallery, Johannesburg Art Gallery, and Wits Art Museum. She lives and works in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Recent exhibitions include Chorus, Dallas Contemporary (2022), Dallas; This song is for…, Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel (2022); The Normal, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburg (2021); This song is for…, Konsthall C, Stockholm (2021); Our Red Sky, Göteborgs Konsthall, Gothenburg (2020); and The Power of my Hands, Musée d’Art Moderne, Paris (2020). She has won a number of awards including a Future Generation Art Prize – Special Prize (2019), the Standard Bank Young Artist Award (2019), and the Institut Français, Afrique en Créations Prize at the Bamako Biennale (2017). Her work features in numerous public and private collections, including Kunsthalle Zürich, TATE Modern, Frac Bretagne, Iziko South African National Gallery, Johannesburg Art Gallery, and Wits Art Museum.

www.gabriellegoliath.com

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Exhibitions

Johannesburg Gallery
26 October - 24 November 2023
Cape Town Gallery
16 November - 10 December 2021

Films

Press & News

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South African artist Gabrielle Goliath and curator Emily Edwards spoke with Amadour to discuss Chorus, Goliath’s first institutional exhibition in the United States.