Gabrielle Goliath

On the occasion of her second solo exhibition at Galleria Raffaella Cortese, Gabrielle Goliath (Kimberely, South Africa, 1983) presents a new body of works on paper and canvas. Exploring the multiple meanings and registers of ‘bearing’, she turns to traditional media such as oils, watercolours, chalk and pastels. With sensitivity and care, the artist centres black, brown, femme and queer bodies, asking herself - and those who come to these works: how it is that such bodies carry, birth and service a world from which they remain excluded? These bodies pose a problem, embody a threshold, haunt the racial ideal of 'the nude’ in western art. In Bearing, Goliath summons the dark radiance and dissident desires of black feminist and queer erotics, claiming tenderness, intimacy, pleasure and love.