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1 week agoGabrielle Goliath Sounds a Call to Action in Venice
The censorship of Goliath's proposed contribution to the Biennale seems especially perverse when confronted with the actual installation, which is hauntingly beautiful and achingly tender. Three works, all part of her ongoing series Elegy, pay tribute to victims of violence: Elegy-Ipeleng Christine Moholane (2015), mourns a South African student killed in 2014 in the country's ongoing femicide crisis; Elegy-for two ancestors (2024) conjures the memory of two women killed by Germany when they murdered tens of thousands of Ovaherero and Nama peoples in Namib
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