THE SCAPEGOAT. 2013
A ceremonial fire shaman; a figure of exile, burning, and transmutation.
“Gilbert’s practice is a haptic mythology, multi-disciplinary, material, and emotionally feral. Through wearable sculpture, performance, and ritual installation, she animates archetypes of the shadow and ecstatic, the sacred and obscene. Her lexicon of hybrid symbols and psychic thresholds aims to reactivate the primal, collective imaginary, a contemporary sacred theatre for bodies who’ve crossed fire.”