Eli Cortiñas and Candice Breitz in live conversation
in Connection with the Exhibition
Walls Have Feelings

14 April 2021
Live-Stream
In English language

Eli Cortiñas uses found material from films, YouTube videos, advertisements, animations, and image archives in her video works, which she reproduces, rhythmises, and sets to music. In the visually striking video essay Walls Have Feelings (2019) she deals with the concepts of work and value creation, among other things. Cortiñas creates a dystopian picture of our present that links historical, political, and aesthetic aspects. The artist questions architecture as a manifestation and instrument of political power as well as the role of supposedly innocent objects and interiors in their function as silent witnesses, protectors, and amplifiers of power.

To mark the presentation of the film Walls Have Feelings at M1 VideoSpace, artists Eli Cortiñas and Candice Breitz have discussed Cortiñas‘ use of the video medium and the importance of image archives in her artistic practic. The conversation has been streamed live via YouTube and there has been an opportunity to ask the artists questions using the chat function.

Candice Breitz (* 1972 in Johannesburg / South Africa) lives in Berlin. She has been a professor at the HBK Braunschweig since 2007. In recent years, exhibitions of her work have been hosted by the n.b.k, Berlin, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Boston Museum of Fine Art and Arken Museum of Modern Art. Upcoming exhibitions includes solo presentations at the Tate Liverpool and the Museum Folkwang, Essen.

Eli Cortiñas (* 1979 in Las Palmas / Gran Canaria) lives in Berlin. After guest professorships at the Academy of Fine Arts Mainz (2014 – 2015) and the Kunsthochschule Kassel (2015 – 2016), she currently shares a professorship with the artist Candice Breitz at the Braunschweig University of Art. Her work has been shown internationally, including solo exhibitions at Convent Space for Contemporary Art in Ghent (2018), the Contemporary Art Centre in Vilnius (2018), the Budapest Palace of Art (2013), and Kunstraum Innsbruck (2012).