Candice Breitz: The Scripted Life

Identity formation and media life – two dominant and recurring themes in the work of Candice Breitz – form the leitmotif of the artist's solo exhibition The Scripted Life at the Kunsthaus Bregenz (February – April 2010), where major existing works will be shown alongside more recent installations. Throughout her early work in photography and collage, and continuing to her sophisticated video installations, the Berlin-based South African artist has consistently examined and dissected mass media and popular culture, role play and gender construction, language and fragmentation, reforming and appropriating them to shape her artistic vocabulary. Essays by Beatrice von Bismarck, Colin Richards and Okwui Enwezor will address various aspects of Breitz'oeuvre to form the scholarly backbone of this catalogue raisonné of the artist's film and video works. Each work is introduced individually with a text by Edgar Schmitz, making this catalogue with excellent images and an carefully compiled appendix the most comprehensive publication on the work of Candice Breitz yet. English and German text.