Video art: Candice Breitz
Johannesburg
In her first solo show at Jo’burg’s Goodman Gallery, Candice Breitz probes the dreams and promises embedded in mainstream cinema.
Venue:
Goodman Gallery, 163 Jan Smuts Avenue.
Price:
Free
Date & Time:
February 23 at 6pm.
Contact Details:
goodman-gallery.com.
She crossed three continents to explore the rituals governing the on-camera and off-camera personae of child actors and adults who found fame this way. Footage was shot in film capitals Los Angeles, Mumbai and Lagos as Breitz sought to “observe and grasp the aspirational logic shared by Hollywood, Bollywood and Nollywood”.
