Thomas Dane Gallery opens an exhibition of Amie Siegel's new large-scale moving image work, Bloodlines
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Thomas Dane Gallery opens an exhibition of Amie Siegel's new large-scale moving image work, Bloodlines
Installation view. © Amie Siegel. Courtesy the artist and Thomas Dane Gallery. Photo: Richard Ive.



LONDON.- Thomas Dane Gallery presents an exhibition of Amie Siegel’s new large-scale moving image work, Bloodlines, and an associated series of prints, Cloude, Clot and Cloot (all 2022), at the London gallery. Siegel’s layered, meticulously constructed works embrace moving image, installation, photography, painting, and performance to trace and perform the undercurrents of systems of value, cultural ownership and image-making.

Filmed in numerous private estates throughout England and Scotland, as well as in public institutions, Bloodlines follows the movement of paintings by English artist George Stubbs (1724-1806) from aristocratic homes and private country houses to an exhibition in a public art gallery, then back again. First depicted within the lavish decor and stillness of the stately home interiors, the paintings take on a new presence when installed by museum workers on gallery walls and seen by a viewing public.

Bloodlines exemplifies Siegel’s understated formal precision, revealing systems of class and inherited wealth and subtly suggesting colonialism’s role in establishing and perpetuating their structures. Offering an intimate look into the world of cultural property and the ownership of heritage, the film explores distinctions between private and public realms, and the labour (and leisure) that maintains each. Through the iterative and conceptual quality of Siegel’s work, Bloodlines conveys a rich constellation of images and ideas and sets up a narrative that unfolds associatively in the viewer’s consciousness. Motifs such as flowers, fireplaces, wallpaper, dogs, horses, and other creatures and patterns of action build and echo throughout the film, accruing meaning. Time, too, becomes both subject and material in the uncannily immutable settings of each home. Distinctions between their interior and exterior worlds, the absence and presence of people; stillness and movement; animate beings and inanimate objects; images of past and present; reality and artifice, all are brought to the fore. A sense of empathy is conveyed, as viewers encounter a cast of both human and animal protagonists.

As the film unfolds, Siegel draws out subtle and poetic connections between her subjects and those of the paintings. People, property, animals, and objects move between the domains of the real and the represented, creating a mirror of human, equine and artistic bloodlines. Without voice-over or narration, Siegel’s intimate camerawork, her signature carefully composed tracking shots, and her deft analogical editing, all expose the dual processes of image-making and perceptions of power. Siegel’s deployment of a seductive cinematic language within the cool restraint of her conceptual rigour sets up a critical parallel to both the expressive surfaces of Stubbs’ paintings and the sumptuous interiors and grounds of the homes that helped provide him with his very subjects. In this way, Siegel directs our gaze and opens a window onto visions of cultural identity held tightly within the frameworks that fix its imagery.

In the print series Cloude, Clot and Cloot (2022), Siegel combines details of the sky as portrayed in several of the Stubbs oil paintings featured within Bloodlines. The puffs and veils of cloud, atmosphere, and greenery in the prints are reproduced at one-to-one scale to the original works, suggesting a gathering of imagery that is instantaneous—like the weather—and, just as artworks that come together for exhibition only to drift apart again, combine to produce new meanings from their unexpected juxtapositions and proximity.

Amie Siegel (b. 1974, Chicago, USA) lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Recent solo exhibitions include Medium Cool, Blaffer Art Museum, Houston; Winter, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao; Strata, South London Gallery; Ricochet, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart; Double Negative, Museum Villa Stuck, Munich and Provenance, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Group exhibitions include the 34th São Paulo Bienal, Gwangju Biennial; Dhaka Art Summit; CAPC Bordeaux; Witte de With, Rotterdam; Vancouver Art Gallery; MuMA, Melbourne; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; MAXXI Museum, Rome; Hayward Gallery, London; CCA Wattis, San Francisco; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; and Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, among many others. Her work is in public collections including The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Tate Modern, London; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.










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