Candice Breitz: The Woods
The Woods is a video trilogy based on three major film producing cities: Hollywood (Los Angeles, USA), Bollywood (Mumbai, India), and Nollywood (Lagos, Nigeria).
In the first two parts of Candice Breitz's trilogy,
The Audition (filmed in Los Angeles) and
The Rehearsal (filmed in Mumbai), showcase current aspiring and working child actors. Breitz wanted to capture the process of how these children mimic adult actions, from applying makeup to copying adult speech that somehow merge into their own understanding of what adulthood is. The last part of the trilogy,
The Interview (filmed in Lagos), features two adult Nollywood stars who attained celebrity status through their own mimicry of children behavior.
Blending in the worlds of the performance of adulthood and the performance of childhood, Breitz's video installations and photographic works capture the difficulty of maintaining "a sense of selfhood" in the cinematic world, as well as everyday life.
Check out
The Woods on Saturday at Perry Rubenstein Gallery.
October 19, 2013 - November 30, 2013
Perry Rubenstein Gallery
1215 N. Highland Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90038
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