Radical Familiar. A different kind of aesthetic encounter

Gabrielle Goliath situates her practice within the histories, life worlds and present-day conditions of black, brown, femme and queer life, refusing its terminal demarcation within a paradigm of racial-sexual violence. The conditions of hope that underscore the social encounters of her work ask for what she terms a life-work of mourning – “for to imagine and seek to realise the world otherwise is to bear with us those lost to or still surviving an order of violence we hope to and must transform”. Goliath’s immersive installations have shown across South Africa and internationally. She has won a number of awards including a Future Generation Art Prize/Special Prize (2019), the Standard Bank Young Artist Award (2019), and the Institut Français, Afrique en Créations Prize at the Bamako Biennale (2017). Her work features in numerous public and private collections, including Kunsthalle Zürich, TATE Modern, Frac Bretagne, Iziko South African National Gallery, Johannesburg Art Gallery, and Wits Art Museum.

Rabia Abba Omar

Rabia Abba Omar is a researcher and curator working towards an MA in Visual Studies from Stellenbosch University’s Visual Arts Department. She is a joint MA fellow at AVReQ and Exeter University’s Imagining Futures of Un/Archived Pasts. She likes to think with/of the ocean, memory, archives, object histories and current expressions of past violences. She holds an MA in Heritage Studies from the University of the Witwatersrand, where she was part of the Oceanic Humanities of the Global South. She is also an alumna of the UnSchool of Disruptive Design’s Emerging Leaders Fellowship and the Accountability Lab’s Non-Profit Management Fellowship.

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