Candice Breitz: Extra! runs at the Standard Bank Gallery in partnership with the Goethe-Institut and Goodman Gallery from 8 February until 5 April, 2012. Breitz is an internationally renowned artist who has exhibited her photographs and video installations worldwide.

Breitz’s exhibition derives its title from her new work Extra (2011), a single-channel video and series of photographs created on the set of the popular local soap opera, Generations. Breitz inserts herself into a number of actual scenes from the soap, sometimes subtly, sometimes awkwardly and absurdly, but always without judgement or easy explanation.

Factum (2010) is a series of dual-channel video installations, each of which juxtaposes the testimonies of a pair of identical twins, whom Breitz interviewed individually at length. The third work on this exhibition, Mother + Father (2005), is a pair of video installations that features a selection of fictional parental characters drawn from popular cinema, and probes parental stereotypes while exploring the formative power of mainstream entertainment.