Gabrielle Goliath

Stumbling Block

Long-term performance project
2011-

A blanketed body lies on cardboard boxes, partially blocking the entrance to a gallery space. The discomforting presence or ‘obstacle’ of the shrouded form complicates access to the space, throwing into question its privileged remove.

As a social and spatial intervention, Stumbling Block demands response, as gallery visitors decide whether to skirt or step-over the blanketed form. Sometimes the body is kicked, at other times investigated, fed, stripped or asked-after. Revealed in the hyper-visible, site-specific impediment is something of how displaced (or ‘unseen’) bodies come to bear on routines of privilege.

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