Candice Breitz's Monument Series gives fans of pop idols like Marilyn Manson, Britney Spears or Abba their own stage. The large-format photo portraits show fan families in their individual diversity as well as in their shared enthusiasm. The idols are mass media material that the protagonists of the portraits appropriate, interpret, and thus bring into their own lives.
"Whether you like it or not, in our urban culture today you encounter Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake or David Beckham everywhere, in the supermarket, on billboards, you breathe it in, you ingest it with your food. (...) Everyone should have the right to use this material."
