“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 (Sister Abegail), 2023, oil stick on paper, 46.5 x 34.5cm
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Sister Abegail Ntleko, South African nurse and healthcare activist
“There may be many secrets to happiness, I don’t know. Here is mine: every night, I take a little time to let go of the previous day. Every night I empty my hands. And every day, I try to fill them with love and then spend all the love until my hands are empty again.”
Empty Hands, 2015