Gabrielle Goliath

“I appreciate your note on the centrality of bodily presence and situated knowledge, which is key to the political, poetic, affective and conceptual impetus of the work, as it calls us into a different, more relational aesthetic encounter. It is, however, important to recall that not all “bodies” are equal, or equally “believable”, and do not enter into political representation on commensurate terms. An (anti-black/brown/poor/femme) index of differentially valued life continues to sustain an inequitable regime of representation, one in which white heteronormativity reads (and reads well) whilst the “affectable others” (to cite Denise Ferreira da Silva) do not.”

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Gabrielle Goliath, Beloved (Adila), 2024, oil stick & chalk pastel on paper, 88.3 x 71cm

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Adila Hassim (SC), prominent advocate and member of the South African legal team that in 2024 challenged the state of Israel at the International Court of Justice, arguing that their sustained bombardment and deprivation of Palestinian people contravened the Genocide Convention.

”Genocides are never declared in advance”

“Every day there is mounting irreparable loss of life, property, dignity and humanity for the Palestinian people”

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