In her ensemble work Provenance, Amie Siegel shines a light on the sociology of modernist design through Pierre Jeannerets furniture designs for the Le Corbusier buildings in Chandigarh, the controversial modernist city in India. The film installation traces the furniture in reverse chronology as they journey from private homes through warehouses, auctions, restorations, and a container ship before arriving back at their point of origin. Together with Siegels video Lot 248, which documents the sale of Provenance at auction, the work itself becomes an element in the cycle of design, capital, and globalization that it depicts.
