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 (Caster), 2023, oil stick & chalk pastel on Somerset Newsprint, 38 x 56.5cm

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Caster Semenya, middle-distance world champion

“Of course I’m a woman”

South African athlete Mokgadi Caster Semenya is a three-times World Championships and two-times Olympic gold medal winner in the women's 800 metres. In 2023 she won a landmark case at the European Court of Human Rights, which ruled that as a woman with hyperandrogenism she was discriminated against by track and field rules that obliged her to medically reduce her natural hormone levels in order to compete in major competitions.

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