The South African’s show stirs visitors’ emotions at Dallas Contemporary.
A visitor takes in Gabrielle Goliath's "Chorus" installation at Dallas Contemporary. The 23-minute video, which captures a performance by the University of Cape Town choir, is on view through March 19.As you enter Dallas Contemporary’s cavernous exhibition spaces, you hear a hum. It sounds like a swarm of bees or the whir of an enormous machine. It’s a dark, ominous sound — an unnatural one for a museum — and it seems endless.
Her works tend to be elegiac — one series is titled “Elegy.” And many of her works center on the tragic deaths of loved ones, community members and friends. In all of her art, she names the person who died. Visitors enter the space, which is so dark that it takes a minute or two for your eyes to adjust. There are two video screens. On one, a choir enters and fills the risers; on the other, the choir never enters and the risers stay empty. The video is nothing more than the choir staring into the camera, humming several octaves of a single note, which my companion — a professional opera singer — identified as G-sharp.
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