The focus of Candice Breitz's artistic work is on the examination of the
influence of family, society, or communities that form the basis of
certain affiliations such as race, gender, nationality, or religion, as
well as on the importance of the media, which creates new groups and
associations. Feminist matters are the focus of this presentation. The
Kunstmuseum Bonn presents a comprehensive solo exhibition about the
artist Candice Breitz (*1972 in Johannesburg), who grew up in South
Africa and lives in Berlin, with video installations and photographs
from the last 25 years. The exhibition presents works ranging from the
early Ghost Series (1994), a series of photographs that reflected on the
violence of whiteness under the apartheid regime at the moment of South
Africa's political transformation in 1994, to more recent works such as
TLDR (2017), a 13-channel video installation, which was created in
collaboration with a community of South African sex workers, which deals
with their worldwide struggle for basic human rights. For her most
recent work Labour, which also was the inspiration for the exhibition
title Breitz has filmed several women while giving birth. In addition to
the exhibition documentation, the accompanying book offers an overview
of all works since 2010.
