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This fall, MoMA PS1 presents the US premiere of Gabrielle Goliath’s (South African, b. 1983) acclaimed, ongoing video series Personal Accounts (2024–ongoing). Opening November 6, Goliath’s moving-image installation, presented across MoMA PS1’s intimate second-floor gallery and corridors, responds to the impacts of patriarchal violence in a range of global contexts from Johannesburg to Kyiv. Intimately documenting survivor testimonials, in collaboration with the contributors, the artist has withheld narrative speech within the videos, instead portraying the moments in between participants’ recounts: breaths, sighs, cries, humming, and even laughter. Goliath’s sonic cycles trouble false binaries of the ‘voiced’ and ‘voiceless,’ revealing the enormity of what can be conveyed in moments of perceived silence. The gestures and spaces between words open into a crescendo of communal expression that foregrounds empathetic registers beyond textual meaning.
Gabrielle Goliath: Personal Accounts is organized by Ruba Katrib, Chief Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs, MoMA PS1.
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Gabrielle Goliath. Personal Accounts. 2024-. Installation view of Stranieri Ovunque – Foreigners Everywhere, on view at La Biennale di Venezia from April 20 through November 24, 2024. Photo: Luc Meneghel
Gabrielle Goliath. Personal Accounts. 2024-. Installation view of Stranieri Ovunque – Foreigners Everywhere, on view at La Biennale di Venezia from April 20 through November 24, 2024. Photo: Luc Meneghel
Gabrielle Goliath. Personal Accounts. 2024-. Installation view of Personal Accounts on view at Talbot Rice Gallery from October 26, 2024 through February 15, 2025. Photo: Sally Jubb
Gabrielle Goliath. Personal Accounts. 2024-. Installation view of Personal Accounts on view at Talbot Rice Gallery from October 26, 2024 through February 15, 2025. Photo: Sally Jubb