The home of commercial British Modern Art is screening videos of people singing. This isn’t a new and more expensive version of MTV, but a piece of work by artist Candice Breitz who often uses video installations in her work to analyse social trends and the peculiarities of modern life.
Upstairs at White Cube, Breitz will present a brand new thirty-channel video installation entitled Queen (A Portrait of Madonna) . The third in a series of intended ‘portraits’ of the music that forms the soundtrack of her generation, here Breitz explores the influence of pop phenomenon Madonna.
Individually filming thirty hardcore yet eclectic Italian Madonna fans (gathered via advertisements in newspapers and fan websites) singing their way through the greatest hits album Immaculate Collection , she assembles their heartfelt performances - shot in screen-test mode - into a choral grid in which moments of incidental harmony emerge from the general cacophony. A counterpart installation King (A Portrait of Michael Jackson) is being shown concurrently at Sonnabend Gallery in New York. This portrait series began with Legend (A Portrait of Bob Marley )
White Cube Gallery, London
Candice Breitz exhibition page at the White Cube
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