Gabrielle Goliath: Personal Accounts

The PinchukArtCentre presents Gabrielle Goliath’s Personal Accounts, an ongoing, deeply moving video installation in which women and gender-diverse collaborators share personal stories of survival and repair, within contexts of patriarchal violence. Unfolding across different geographies and political landscapes, its latest chapter, a quiet rush, was filmed in Ukraine in March 2025, amid the full-scale war. It is presented alongside earlier chapters recorded in South Africa, Italy, and Scotland.

In each location, Goliath creates a space of care—an environment shaped by presence, consent, and emotional resonance. Her work doesn’t seek to display trauma but to honour the agency of those who have lived through it. Participants—women, queer, trans, and non-binary individuals—were invited to share not only their stories, but their silences, gestures, and breath.

The Kyiv chapter holds a unique urgency. Created during wartime and in collaboration with Ukrainian human rights NGOs and activists, a quiet rush becomes a powerful reminder: even as the country fights for its territorial integrity, we must also give attention to challenges beyond the immediate defence of the country: individual freedoms, enduring values of dignity, inclusivity and attentiveness to each life. While living through an existential challenge, this work offers a quiet, radical proposition: that tenderness is a form of resistance, and that healing can be a collective gesture.

Curated by Björn Geldhof, artistic director of the PinchukArtCentre and Oleksandra Pogrebnyak, curator of the PinchukArtCentre/