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OLIATH’S work is represented in the collections of the Iziko South African National Gallery and the Johannesburg Art Gallery, as well as in academic, private and corporate collections. It has featured in exhibitions in New York, North Carolina and Berlin. She is currently a PhD candidate at the Institute for Creative Arts, Cape Town. A video work will travel to Milan next.

“I’m always excited about the possibilities of presenting Elegy in contexts that seem far removed from here. I have been deeply moved and encouraged in the past by the way in which people from radically different sociopolitical contexts are able to relate empathically to seemingly far-flung situations of violence and loss,” said Goliath.

How spiritually close can we place ourselves to the dead? Feel their existence in another somewhere? Collectively share their pain and ours? And engage with them through a channel that does not rely on some memory transmission?

Goliath’s Elegy does not attempt to provide answers. Rather, it emotionally places the audience in a ritual, and in so doing is able to drive its core subject. Elegy heals the living. It counters grief. It is an outlet to cough out the pain.

Elegy also becomes an expression of respect for a lost life. It restores dignity and worth to a violated life. LS Visit gabriellegoliath.com