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Monographic exhibition by Candice Breitz: Multiple Exposure
Stills de Mother, 2005
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Duración: 13 min 15 seg
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Stills: Alex Fahl
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The MUSAC presents a monographic exhibition of the work of Candice Breitz. This survey of recent works made since 2000 will focus strongly on the artist's multi-channel video installations.

Breitz's work addresses the complex relationship between culture and consumption, probing and dissecting the rocky chasms between reality and fiction, experience and language, identity and its representations. The exhibition's curator Octavio Zaya describes Breitz's work as a practice that isolates the found footage that the artist often takes as her source, aggressively re-directing this footage against its characteristically narrative and anesthetic functions." But Breitz's interventions are not simply critical attacks on the products of mass entertainment: they also take seriously the significance that pop culture acquires for those who consume it and use it.

Over the last decade, Candice Breitz has been translating, remixing and editing the codes and icons of contemporary media culture and the language of the entertainment industry. In early photographic montages, she explored the instability of identity and the violence of representation. The compelling video installations that grew out of the earlier photographic works, and which have become central to her practice, tend to strip down and interrogate found footage borrowed from mainstream cinema, television and music video. Breitz isolates and aggressively redirects this footage away from its characteristically narrative and anesthetic functions. The resulting works traverse a familiar yet puzzling and fragmentary terrain, rescinding the grammar and syntax of the borrowed material. On the one hand, Breitz's media-scapes expose the machinery and tease out the values of the mainstream media industry. On the other, they reflect on the very real affect that pop culture is able to generate and sustain; projections and identifications that are more complex than they may at first seem.

The exhibition, produced by the MUSAC and curated by the critic and regular MUSAC collaborator Octavio Zaya, brings together for the first time a broad selection of the works (including Soliloquy Trilogy, Becoming and Mother + Father) that have established Candice Breitz as one of the central artistic figures of her generation.

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Exhibition Title: Candice Breitz: Multiple Exposure
Artist: Candice Breitz (Johannesburg, South Africa, 1972)
Curator: Octavio Zaya
Coordination: Marta Gerveno, Alexander Fahl
Venue: Halls 1 and 3, MUSAC
Dates: January 20, 2006 - May 2nd, 2007

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