Videos of a birthing in reverse in Candice Breitz’s Labour document the process of mothers undoing the moment they gave birth to men who would become tyrants and dictators.
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Artist Candice Breitz Calls for Refugee Aid Worker’s Release After 100-Day Imprisonment [UPDATED]
Since August, Sarah Mardini — a humanitarian aid worker who saved refugees bound for Greece by pulling their sinking dinghy ashore — has indefinitely languished in a prison outside Athens.
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Artists Protest Australian Museum’s Deal with Security Firm that Allegedly Abused Asylum-Seekers
Candice Breitz retitled one of her pieces “Wilson Must Go” in protest of the National Gallery of Victoria’s contract with Wilson Security, a company shown to have committed human rights abuses at Australian detention centers.
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If Hollywood Actors Tell Refugees’ Stories, Will We Finally Listen?
In Candice Breitz’s video installation, six men and women recount their stories, which are then reinterpreted by Alec Baldwin and Julianne Moore.