INTERNATIONAL LECTURE SERIES
Candice Breitz
Thursday 1 May | 7 pm
Candice Breitz is a Berlin-based South African artist who works in photography, video and other media, using popular imagery to expose the absurdity of how we construct meaning through stereotypes. Through darkly humorous and subversive tactics, Breitz scavenges and then synthesizes the overwhelming remains of vernacular media, striking out at visual and narrative conventions to reveal our fascination with celebrity culture. Borrowing from films such as Basic Instinct, The Witches of Eastwick, Dirty Harry, Kramer vs Kramer, and Postcards from the Edge, and investigating the fan subcultures of musicians including Madonna, Michael Jackson, and Bob Marley, Breitz takes a metaphorical scalpel to contemporary culture, revealing levels of intellectual, technical, and aesthetic sophistication.
Born in 1972 in Johannesburg, Breitz has participated in many major exhibitions including the Johannesburg, São Paulo, Istanbul, Kwangju, Taipei and Venice Biennales. She has had solo exhibitions at De Appel Foundation, Amsterdam (2001), Moderna Museet, Stockholm (2004), Modern Art Oxford (2003), Castello di Rivoli, Turin (2005), and Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2005).
FREE to Members
$10 Non-Members
The Studio Theatre at Harbourfront Centre
235 Queens Quay West
