The ‘Pillars’ – as Goodman refers to the sculptures – are ceramic structures of pills, assembled by shapes, colours and sizes to form towers of tablets that leave you somewhat discombobulated because of their sheer magnitude, but chiefly as reminders of your own mortality.

“I suppose the artworks are me trying to make peace with human fragility and how there are all these aspects in ourselves. We all have that innate compulsion to sometimes escape our lives but also this very sincere and earnest desire to be better. We need all these things – pills, affirmations, release and so on – to prop ourselves up,” explains Goodman.

Grappling with her own vulnerability has caused Goodman to look into the ever-changing human body, and mind, that frequently vacillate between strength and frailty. As the world heaves and sighs through all the supersonic change we’re experiencing, pop culture points to our collective need to live in any world other than this one, where we’re able to fly and soar above our limitations.

Goodman explains, “I have always been interested in the body as a kind state and sovereignty, that we turn inwards when we have little control on the outside. So, the more out of control our outer world seems, we turn inwards because that's the only place where you have any sense of control.”

What Goodman achieves with this exhibition is to hold a mirror up to humanity – our yearning for healing and our inherent desire to dream, to be better – without judgement or exultation.

Text by Lerato Tshabalala