
Talbot Rice Gallery presents the first solo exhibitions staged in the UK by contemporary artists Gabrielle Goliath and Guadalupe Maravilla.
Goliath’s Personal Accounts and Piedras de Fuego (Fire Stones) by Maravilla, open to the public on Saturday October 26, 2024, and run until Saturday 15 Feb 2025.
Both exhibitions draw inspiration from stories of healing and repair, celebrating the personal endurance that enables individuals to survive, and also thrive, following experiences of trauma.
A global conversation
South African artist Gabrielle Goliath describes Personal Accounts as a trans-national, decolonial, black feminist project, exploring the many ways people experience and survive patriarchal violence around the world.
The exhibition comprises a series of immersive video and soundscapes presented in the Gallery’s white space, charting the lived experience of collaborating survivors.
Produced in Johannesburg, Tunis, Oslo, Como, and now Edinburgh, Personal Accounts sees Goliath collaborate with members of local communities, whose shared experiences of survival create a new collection of portraits in each place.
In all iterations, the spoken words of participants are withheld, communicating each individual’s experience through body language, gesture and emotion. Goliath draws these diverse experiences and stories of survival into an empathetic conversation about healing and repair.
