Forum 87
New York-based artist Amie Siegel (b. 1974 in Chicago, IL) debuts a new work that stems from her research into the collections and displays of Carnegie Museum of Natural History. Siegel’s new film installation traces how objects or animals become displaced from their context to arrive at the museum. Contesting inherited practices of knowledge extraction and conventions of display across fields of art, ethnography, and natural history, Siegel’s prescient work questions notions of value, museology, and material culture at a time when the raison d’être of the museum is itself under scrutiny. This newly commissioned film installation builds on an existing relationship between the artist and the museum; her video Fetish (2016) was acquired by Carnegie Museum of Art in 2016.
Amie Siegel is organized by Liz Park, Richard Armstrong Curator of Contemporary Art.
Part of → Forum Series
Forum Gallery presents the work of living artists in an ongoing series that invites them to expand their practice through a commission or new presentation of existing works. Initiated in 1990, and with 86 projects to date, the Forum series is an opportunity for artists to deepen their relationship to and understanding of the museum.
