The US premiere of
Gabrielle Goliath鈥檚 (South African, b. 1983) acclaimed, video series Personal Accounts (2024鈥搊ngoing) 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鈥 recounts: breaths, sighs, cries, humming, and even laughter. Goliath鈥檚 sonic cycles trouble false binaries of the 鈥渧oiced鈥 and 鈥渧oiceless,鈥 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.