Candice Breitz in EMMA
Candice Breitz (b. 1972) is an internationally renowned
South African photographic and video artist who lives and works in Berlin.
This is the first time her work has been shown in Finland.
EMMA will show the music works King (A Portrait of Michael Jackson), 2005, Queen (A Portrait of Madonna), 2005 and the artist’s latest works Him (1968-2008) and Her (1978-2008) which remix clips excerpted from mainstream cinema. The works are multi-channel, large-scale video installations that are shown on up to 30 plasma displays, the central theme of which is the inflection of identity through popular culture and mainstream media.