Amie Siegel: Catalogue

American artist Amie Siegel's Catalogue is a publication that poses as and
functions like an artist s book, but is in fact is a compilation of scanned auction
catalog images of 1950s furniture designed by Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret
for Chandigarh, India. Part of her recent three-part exhibition at the Metropolitan
Museum and subject of her film Provenance (2013), the trading of the furniture
in these sumptuous spreads charts the migration of the spoils of modern design
and larger movements of capital. Working between film, installation, photography
and performance, Amie Siegel questions the tropes of cinematic form and in this
project strips back the layers of patrimony that influence the cultural and market
value of objects. An unusual exhibition catalog designed to showcase this layered
work by an exciting young artist. Sielgel's work has been showcased at CCA, Tel
Aviv, MAXXI, Rome, the Hayward Gallery, London and MoMA, NY.