Amie Siegel
The Modernists, 2010two c-prints; video projection, colour/silent
two c-prints; video projection, colour/silent
edition 1 of 3 + 2AP
In The Modernists (2010), two framed c-prints are placed opposite a video projection. The video and photographic elements together form one work, cross cutting an archive of travel photographs and super-8 films of a husband and wife couple over the 1960s -1980s, as he films and photographs her in front of modernist sculpture the world over. Re-focused and reassembled, these static and moving images examine the domestic camera's gendered, repetitive relationship to sculpture, fashion, and private/public performance.