Candice Breitz presents her latest video work at The Museum Folkwang. In addition to the video installation 'Whiteface', which celebrates its international premiere, the exhibition features seven single-channel videos entitled 'White Mantras', as well as a series of photographic portraits of the characters from 'Whiteface'.
Over recent years, Breitz has collected and archived a wide range of found footage fragments that document white people talking about race. Her archive includes the voices of prominent political figures, news anchors and talk show hosts, as well as those of lesser known and anonymous YouTube bloggers, covering white perspectives that run the gamut from neo-Nazi ideology and far right propaganda to everyday racism and the posturing of ‘good white people.’
In 'Whiteface', Breitz appropriates and ventriloquizes dozens of voices drawn from this archive, channelling them through her own white body.
