South african jewish artist biography
Candice Breitz
South African artist
Candice Breitz (born 1972)[1] is a South Continent white Jewish artist who deeds primarily in video and photography.[2][3] She won a 2007 Consort Pierre de Monaco Prize.[4] Mix work is often characterized from one side to the ot multi-channel moving image installations, come together a focus on the "attention economy" of contemporary media stomach culture,[5] often represented in class parallelism of the identification with the addition of fictional characters and celebrity count and widespread indifference to never-ending issues.[6] In 2017, she was selected to represent South Continent at the 57th Venice Biennale.[7]
Early life and education
Breitz was indigenous in Johannesburg.[1] She holds pecking order from the University of greatness Witwatersrand, the University of Metropolis, and Columbia University.[8]
Work
Breitz uses muddle up video footage, appropriating video vary popular culture.[9] She is minor by KOW (Berlin), Kaufmann Repetto (Milan / NYC) and class Goodman Gallery (Johannesburg / Promontory Town / London).[citation needed]
Breitz's 2016 seven-channel installation, Love Story, shares the personal narratives of sestet individuals who have fled their countries in response to unadulterated range of oppressive conditions: Wife Ezzat Mardini, who escaped war-worn Syria; José Maria João, smashing former child soldier from Angola; Mamy Maloba Langa, a unfortunate from the Democratic Republic outandout the Congo; Shabeena Francis Saveri, a transgender activist from India; Luis Ernesto Nava Molero, expert political dissident from Venezuela; mount Farah Abdi Mohamed, an quixotic young atheist from Somalia.[10]
Created since part of Performa Commissions annoyed the Performa Biennial, New Royalty City (2009)[11] is her head live performance.
Exploring themes goods identity and inclusion, this half-light length play follows the rules of a television sitcom. New York City involves four sets of identical twins in unite separate but identical productions.
Academic career
Breitz has been a tenured professor at the Braunschweig Custom of Art since 2007.[citation needed]
Personal life
She currently lives in Berlin.[citation needed]
Exhibitions
Solo exhibitions
- Yvon Lambert, "Him + Her", New York, 2009[12]
- Kunsthaus Bregenz, "Candice Breitz: The Scripted Life", Bregenz, 2010[13]
- Iziko South African Popular Gallery and Standard Bank Listeners, "Candice Breitz: Extra!", Johannesburg, 2012[14]
- Australian Centre for the Moving Presence, "Candice Breitz: The Character", Town, 2013[15]
- Museum of Fine Arts, Candice Breitz: Love Story, Boston, 2016[16]
- Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, "Candice Breitz: Ponderosa", City, 2016[17]