31th October, 2025 to 8th February, 2026
ARTIST: Candice Breitz
The Espai d’Art Contemporani de Castelló presents a solo exhibition by the artist Candice Breitz. The Johannesburg-born artist fills the EACC with a series of works that explore how celebrity worship, the omnipresence of social media, and systems of white privilege are used as tools that compete for our attention.
Known for her multi-channel video installations and photography, Candice Breitz works with the languages of mass culture to highlight the control they exert over our perception of reality and our empathy towards our fellow human beings.
Through collage, editing, fragmentation, and appropriation, drawing heavily on the visual and auditory repertoire of so-called “popular” culture, she analyzes how the media control and compete with strategies to capture our attention in an information market that fetishizes fame and feeds on entertainment.
Her art thus evokes the dangers of misinformation at a time when our narratives are shaped by algorithms, marked by our clicks and comments on social media and disconnected from the urgent realities of the world.
The exhibition consists of the following works:
TLDR: Video installation recounting the ideological battle that pitted feminists against feminists, and the human rights organization Amnesty International against an uncomfortable coalition of prominent Hollywood actresses and sex work abolitionists.
The work continues on the upper floor of the EACC with a series of intimate interviews featuring first-person accounts from sex workers. This space also houses the exhibition of costumes and props created for TLDR in collaboration with the SWEAT Community.
Ghost Series: A set of 10 photographs altered with Tipp-Ex correction fluid that serve as a denunciation of the apartheid regime.
Profile: Three short films serving as a self-portrait of the artist, made in response to her nomination to represent South Africa in the country’s pavilion at the Venice Biennale.
Digest: Consisting of 1,001 videotapes buried and sealed in plastic sleeves inspired by the legend of Scheherazade, reflecting on the patriarchal order and the disruptive and subversive potential of narrative.
Labour: Six video installations consisting of images of real births recorded in documentary style but in reverse, accompanied by a supposed Matricial Decree, whose titles refer to the six most insensitive populist leaders of the early 21st century. All made with a feminist sensibility and a marked acid humor.
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