How Whiteface reads meta-cringe, scary but true with Candice Breitz
Identities. Forums. Area codes. Nationalities. Fads. The platonic, domestic, corporate and romantic. Aesthetics. Routines. Diagnoses. Accomplishments and failures. These and more are the communities in which the individual partake in. Working primarily in video and photography, Candice Breitz examines the individual and the ways they manifest in or form communities. In Whiteface, a presentation currently exhibited at Goodman Gallery in Cape Town, the community in question is whiteness. Employing the public archive, repetition, immersion, uniformity, and interminability, Whiteface is a portrait of white rage, privilege, fragility and guilt. In this week’s Of Interest, Breitz talks about embodying white panic, studying linguistics, autoethnography, and social constructs as lived performances.
