Candice Breitz (born 1972) is showing the video work "Whiteface", created in 2022, at the Kunsthalle Krems as part of the donaufestival. In it, the South African-born artist explores "whiteness" and "white privilege".

Over several years, Breitz collected media recordings that document how white people talk about race. These perspectives range from right-wing extremist ideologies and propaganda to everyday racism and the appearance of "good white people". They also illustrate how white people struggle with stereotypes such as white privilege, white sensitivity and white guilt.
In "Whiteface", the artist appropriates these archival voices like a ventriloquist's dummy and, equipped with changing wigs, focuses on the conditions of whiteness. The film is a portrait of panicked white people and satirizes this absurd fear. The artist's deliberately theatrical performance draws attention to the constructed nature of whiteness and other racialized categories.
April 20 to September 22, 2024
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