Thomas Dane Gallery presents Amie Siegel’s exhibition Backstory, comprised of an intimately connected constellation of video and works on paper that inquire after the social fashioning of value and how cultural memory evolves – itself becoming a product, artifact or experience.
The artist’s work often creates layered, atmospheric tableaux, querying the genesis of images and the latent relationships between cinematographic, acoustic and architectonic space. Originally commissioned for the second part of Siegel’s double solo exhibition at the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart in 2016, Backstory is the inaugural presentation of this body of work in London.
Together the works in the exhibition bring into high relief the sculptural, soundtracked backstory of gendered cinematic forms. Noon is the time of day when objects lose their shadow, but also the cinematic notion of a final, decisive confrontation.
☆Donation:
Paik’s Video Study
Jean-Michel Basquiat's 'Untitled (Skull)
Niamh O'Malley, 'Glasshouse' (2014)
Frida Kahlo’s Self-Portraits: A Video Essay
Tilda Swinton Pays Tribute to the Films of Pier Paolo Pasolini
Erwin Olaf. Strange Beauty
Neïl Beloufa. Digital Mourning
BXL UNIVERSEL II : MULTIPLI.CITY
JOHN AKOMFRAH_Vertigo Sea, Montréal
