smith.edu/artmuseum Media contact: Margi Caplan, [email protected] For Immediate Release (updated 4.14.16) Smith College Museum of Art will host the 13th Annual Miller Lecture in Art & Art History Photo by Derek Henderson Tuesday, April 26, 2016 | 7 PM (Doors open at 6:30 PM) Weinstein Auditorium | Wright Hall | Smith College FREE and open to all | Limited seating Northampton MA March 25, 2016—The Smith College Museum of Art is pleased to host the 13 th Annual Miller Lecture in Art & Art History. Candice Breitz, internationally known artist will present “From A to B and Back Again” on Tuesday, April 26 at 7 PM in Weinstein Auditorium, Wright Hall, Smith College. Doors will open at 6:30 PM. (Admission is free and open to all. Reserved seating is available to museum members.) Details: smith.edu/artmuseum In addition to presenting the 2016 Miller Lecture, Candice Breitz will meet with Smith students and area K–12 teachers as part of her visit to Smith. The Miller Lecture series, established at SCMA in memory of Dulcy Blume Miller, class of 1946, enables the museum to bring a leading artist, architect, or art historian to campus each year to give a public lecture. ABOUT THE ARTIST Candice Breitz (Johannesburg, 1972) is a Berlin-based artist known for her moving image installations that explore popular culture and media’s effect on the contemporary identity. In 2013, SCMA acquired Breitz’s Factum Tremblay, a part of her Factum series. Breitz recorded interviews with seven pairs of identical twins and one set of identical triplets for the project. The series takes its name from Robert Rauschenberg’s paintings Factum I and Factum II (1957), which examine the persistent differences in apparent replicas. In each work, Breitz has edited the siblings’ stories, presented side-by-side in separate videos, to run in parallel but diverge at important moments. Breitz explains her interest in this subject: I have always been interested in the question of individuality, the question of how people become themselves. And it struck me, as it has struck many artists and scientists preceding me, that twins would be an interesting subject for a project addressing the workings of individuality. MORE > CANDICE BREITZ FROM A TO B AND BACK AGAIN