Gabrielle Goliath’s "Elegy" Comes to Venice

Gabrielle Goliath’s "Elegy" Comes to Venice

Back in January, we had to wrap our heads around the fact that South Africa, the same country that charged Israel with genocide at The Hague, censored an exhibition about Palestinian grief. The nation’s Culture Minister Gayton McKenzie, a supporter of Israel, nixed Gabrielle Goliath’s installation Elegy for its pavilion at the Venice Biennale, using false accusations of foreign intervention that convinced nobody. But that wasn’t the end of the s…