Amie Siegel: Skutočný svet

Siegel works variously between film, video, photography, performance and installation. An important link between several of her works is the architecture industry. The various economic roles, hierarchies, structures and relationships architecture has to political and/or social power are thematically taken up by the works presented within Amie Siegel's VIPER exhibition.

In The Architects (2014, HD Video, 33 minutes) Siegel's slowly moving camera slices smoothly through the offices of ten architectural firms in New York City over the course of a single day, revealing only subtle differences within the overall uniformity of the contemporary spaces of these global architecture firms, where so many high profile projects are created.

Quarry (2015, HD Video, 34 minutes) follows the journey of Vermont-quarried marble—a material symbol of wealth and luxury—from its origin to its final destination within luxury high-rise residencies built by developers across Manhattan. What we see in Quarry are, in fact, the 1:1 architectural models, life-size imitation spaces developers present to market these highly idealized, but very real, interiors of yet to be built buildings to prospective buyers.

These works describe the context of contemporary architecture and its surrounding industry. Exhibited together, The Architects and Quarry underline the artist's distinctive ability to render and expose the complex economies of production and speculation.

Amie Siegel (born 1974, Chicago, USA) is known for her layered, meticulously constructed works that trace and perform the undercurrents of systems of value, cultural ownership and image-making. The artist’s recent solo exhibitions include the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York; Kunstmuseum Stuttgart; MAK, Vienna; Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin; Museum Villa Stuck, Munich. She has participated in numerous group exhibitions including at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Hayward Gallery, London; KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin; MoMA PS1, New York; MAXXI Museum, Rome; Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, among others. Her films have been screened at the Cannes, Berlin, Toronto and New York Film Festivals. She has been a fellow of the DAAD Berliner-Künstlerprogramm, the Guggenheim Foundation and The Film Study Center at Harvard University, and a recipient of the ICA Boston’s 2010 Foster Prize, a 2012 Sundance Institute Film Fund award, the 2014 Forum Expanded award at the Berlin Film Festival, and received a 2015 Creative Capital Award. Her work is featured in public collections including the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Tate Modern and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Siegel lives and works in New York City.

The exhibition has been supported by U.S. Embassy Prague, Joinmusic, s.r.o., Etnetera Logicworks - Apple Authorized Reseller, and KS Textile Art.

Images courtesy the artist and Simon Preston Gallery, New York

On the occasion of her exhibition at VIPER Gallery, the American artist Amie Siegel will discuss her work in a free, public presentation.