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Love Story
Candice Breitz (South African, born in 1972)
2016
Medium/Technique
7-Channel Installation (Exhibition Copy). Aspect ratio 16:9; format MPEG-4; color; sound.
Dimensions
Duration (approx.): 60 minutes
Aspect Ratio: 16:9
Aspect Ratio: 16:9
Credit Line
Jointly owned by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and Tate—Museum purchase with funds donated by Lizbeth and George Krupp, Tate International Council, Tate Africa Acquisitions Committee, Wendy Fisher, Emile Stipp, and Mercedes Vilardell
Accession Number2017.4181
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsContemporary Art
ClassificationsElectronic media
Descriptionhalf of the Edition 3/5 + 2 A.P.
Seven-Channel installation: 7 Hard Drives
Color, sound
"7 channel video installation featuring, Alec Baldwin and Julianne Moore in front of a green screen: "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?"
Retrieved from:
"Candice Breitz - Exhibitions - KOW." Start - KOW. Accessed August 09, 2017. http://www.kow-berlin.info/exhibitions/candice_breitz.
Seven-Channel installation: 7 Hard Drives
Color, sound
"7 channel video installation featuring, Alec Baldwin and Julianne Moore in front of a green screen: "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?"
Retrieved from:
"Candice Breitz - Exhibitions - KOW." Start - KOW. Accessed August 09, 2017. http://www.kow-berlin.info/exhibitions/candice_breitz.
Provenance2017, Kaufmann Repetto Gallery, Milan, Italy; sold to the MFA in October 2017. (Accession Date: October 11, 2017)