Gabrielle Goliath is perhaps best-known for her long-standing series of performance works titled Elegy (2015–ongoing), in which a group of female vocal performers maintain a single note over the course of an hour, with each taking their place to sing on a podium until they can sing no more, at which point they are relieved of duty by one of their collaborators. Conceived as an act of collective ritual mourning, in response to the murder of journalism student Ipeleng Christine Moholane, the work epitomises Goliath’s conceptually profound yet immaculately tender approach to one of the most harrowing realities of life in contemporary South Africa: the prevalence of gender-based violence. Her sound installation Roulette (2014) featured white noise punctuated by a gunshot every six hours to reflect the average frequency of femicide in South Africa. (In 2018 she updated the work to reflect new police data: now the gunshot sounds every three hours.) Goliath’s work was exhibited at the Venice Biennale in 2024 and is held in the collection of institutions including Tate Modern, Kunsthalle Zürich and the Iziko South African National Gallery.