Candice Breitz (born 1972)[1] is a
South African white artist who works primarily in video and photography.[2][3] She won a 2007 Prince Pierre de Monaco Prize.[4] Her work is often characterized by multi-channel moving image installations, with a focus on the “attention economy” of contemporary media and culture,[5] often represented in the parallelism of the identification with fictional characters and celebrity figures and widespread indifference to global issues.[6] In 2017, she was selected to represent South Africa at the
57th Venice Biennale.[7]
Breitz's 2016 seven-channel installation, Love Story, shares the personal narratives of six individuals who have fled their countries in response to a range of oppressive conditions: Sarah Ezzat Mardini, who escaped war-torn Syria; José Maria João, a former child soldier from Angola; Mamy Maloba Langa, a survivor from the Democratic Republic of the Congo; Shabeena Francis Saveri, a transgender activist from India; Luis Ernesto Nava Molero, a political dissident from Venezuela; and Farah Abdi Mohamed, an idealistic young atheist from Somalia.[14]
Created as part of Performa Commissions for the
Performa Biennial,
New York, New York (2009) is her first live performance. Exploring themes of identity and inclusion, this evening length play follows the formula of a television sitcom. New York, New York involves four sets of identical twins in two separate but identical productions.
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^Bern, Zentrum Paul Klee, Monument im Fruchtland 3, CH-3000.
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