Candice BreitzLabour – Catalogue Raisonné 2011–2020

Video Installations and Photographs from 20 Years! The focus of Candice Breitz’s artistic work is an examination of the influence of family and society, or of communities that form on the basis of particular categories such as race, gender, nationality or religion, as well as of the significance of the media for the emergence of new groupings and alliances. The Kunstmuseum Bonn is devoting a comprehensive solo exhibition, with video installations and photographs of the past 25 years, to the artist (*1972 in Johannesburg), who comes from South Africa and lives in Berlin. Feminist questions form the focus of this presentation, which spans a range from early works such as “Ghost Series” (1994), a series of photographs reflecting the enduring violence of the apartheid regime, to more recent works such as “TLDR” (2017), a video installation created in collaboration with a group of South African sex workers. For the current, title-giving work “Labour” Candice Breitz accompanied births with her camera. Besides documenting the exhibition, the accompanying catalogue offers a survey of all works since 2000!

Exhibition:
Kunstmuseum Bonn, 20/2 – 3/5/2020