Candice. Breitz
Autore di Candice Breitz [cat. exp., Castello di Rivoli museo d'arte contemporanea, 2005]
Opere di Candice. Breitz
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Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1972
- Nazionalità
- South Africa
- Luogo di nascita
- Johannesburg, South Africa
- Luogo di residenza
- Berlin, Germany
- Istruzione
- University of the Witwatersrand
- Attività lavorative
- artist
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 7
- Utenti
- 29
- Popolarità
- #460,290
- Voto
- 3.0
- Recensioni
- 1
- ISBN
- 9
- Lingue
- 3
Yet these narratives of escape and of fresh beginning are hardly delivered to us seamlessly. Breitz has recruited two familiar faces – two members of the global media family that we’re accustomed to welcoming into our living rooms – only to put into their mouths the stories of people who are generally treated as faceless and voiceless in our culture, only so as to introduce us to those who are typically destined to remain outside and beyond our zones of comfort: isolated in refugee camps and asylum courtrooms, relegated to the basement of our social (un)conscious. Over the course of seventy-three minutes, the montage featuring Baldwin and Moore suspends us between cinema-at-its-best – a dramatized narration that moves us to tears and to laughter; and the inevitably awkward spectacle that ensues as we observe two highly-privileged celebrities attempting to earnestly channel lives that could not be more remote from their own. We are alternately moved and utterly perturbed. What business do major stars of the hegemonic American storytelling industry – with their iconic onscreen presence and professionally polished delivery – have slipping into these roles?… (altro)