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25/2/2003

Candice Breitz

asprey jacques, London

Diorama

'My barbecue, my house, my barbecue, my house...' (Jock Ewing)
'I always cry at weddings, I always cry at weddings, I always cry at weddings...' (Miss Ellie)
'But what about love, but what about love...' (Pam)
'I want a clean and fast divorce, I want a clean and fast divorce...' (Sue Ellen)
'You're not my real mommy & daddy, you're not my real mommy & daddy...' (Christopher)

aspreyjacques is pleased to present Diorama, Candice Breitz's first solo show in London. Produced while Candice Breitz was in residency at ArtPace (San Antonio, USA), Diorama is the latest in a series of multichannel video installations for which the artist has gained international recognition.

For London, Breitz will transform the gallery into a domestic space complete with avocado green walls, fitted carpet and furnishings. Nine monitors will be scattered around the room, each screen showing a different character from the 1980s American soap opera Dallas. Played simultaneously, the nine monitors recite an exhausting catalogue of daily dilemmas typical of family life in the late twentieth century: birth, death, marriage, divorce, suicide and betrayal.

Through her editing, Breitz creates a series of jarring moments submerging us in a litany of intimate dramas. Figures like J.R. Ewing and Cliff Barnes are reincarnated in thought-provoking and surprisingly moving guises. Bobby, Pam, Lucy, Sue Ellen and little Christopher all rear their heads once more for an audience, many of whom will have been avid viewers of the soap opera which ran for fourteen years. These ghosts from our recent consumer-past return to us like ex-lovers, goading us and provoking simultaneous feelings of fascination and disgust.

Born in Johannesburg (1972), Candice Breitz lives and works in Berlin. Solo shows include the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York (2000); De Appel Foundation, Amsterdam (2001) and Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (2002). Breitz was also recently included in 'Remix' at the Tate Liverpool. Forthcoming museum solo shows include Castello di Rivoli, Turin and Modern Art, Oxford (13 September - 9 November 2003).

Private view: Wednesday 26 February, 6 - 8

Gallery hours: Tuesday - Saturday, 10 - 6

Next Exhibitions: Jeff Ono / Ian Kiaer, 11 April - 24 May
John Chilver, 30 May - 1 August

Art Fairs: The Armory Show, New York, 7 - 10 March, Pier 88, Booth 8008

For further information and images
please contact Alison Abrams on 0207 287 7675

aspreyjacques
4 Clifford Street
London
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f: 020 7287 7674

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