In her ensemble work Provenance, Amie Siegel shines a light on the sociology of modernist design through Pierre Jeanneret’s furniture designs for the Le Corbusier buildings in Chandigarh, the controversial modernist city in India. The film installation traces the furniture in reverse chronology as they journey from private homes through warehouses, auctions, restorations, and a container ship before arriving back at their point of origin. Together with Siegel’s video Lot 248, which documents the sale of Provenance at auction, the work itself becomes an element in the cycle of design, capital, and globalization that it depicts.

Curator: Bärbel Vischer, Curator, MAK Contemporary Art Collection
 

Exhibition Talk

with the artist and the art historian Helmut Draxler
Tue, 21.4.2015, 8:15 p.m.
 

Curator-guided tour

through the exhibition with Bärbel Vischer
Tue, 12.5.2015, 6 p.m.


This exhibition and the acquisition of the work were made possible with the generous support of Phileas.