photos: © Miguel de Guzmán . + Simon Preston Gallery
Double Negative is composed of two silent, black & white 16mm films and a color HD video, which together propose ruptures between notions of original and remake, artifact and copy, collection and preservation. Continue reading Amie Siegel
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A film work shown at cinematic scale, Provenance (2013) circles around the global trade in furniture from the Indian city of Chandigarh. Conceived in the 1950s by architects Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret, Chandigarh’s controversial modernist architecture includes original pieces of furniture—tables, chairs, settees, desks—created specifically for the building’s interiors. Recently these pieces have appeared at auction houses around the world, commanding record prices.
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