Double Negative
Two 16mm films simultaneously project images of Le Corbusier’s iconic white Villa Savoye outside Paris, and its doppelgänger, a black copy located in Canberra, Australia. Each film has been printed on 16mm stock as a negative image, or polarity print, thus reversing light and dark. The Antipodean black Villa Savoye is, in fact, an ethnographic institute, dedicated now to the digital duplication of its extensive collections of anthropological films, photographs, slides and sound recordings, as Siegel reveals in a high definition colour video. The work enacts the infinite loop of recorded artefacts—the urgency to document and record “vanishing” rituals and cultural practices becomes instead the contemporary archival impulse to copy vanishing media formats to digital. These concatenated elements extend the artist’s engagement with architecture as a foil, enacting and revealing across constellation-like works, layered sociological and aesthetic concerns.
2023
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Great White Fight Club
1969
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People
2013
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Scooby-Doo! Mecha Mutt Menace
1979
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Going Steady
1970
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How I Unleashed World War II, Part III: Among Friends
1995
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Cincinnati's Rock 'N Roll Legends
2005
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Barbie: Fairytopia
2014
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Forbidden Cinema: Volume 7 - Vintage Naughty Nudies
1988
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Twentieth Century Begins, Part 2
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The Code
2005
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Forest
2010
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Spring
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Florence Fight Club
2023
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The Orange Room
2014
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Magpie
2023
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Stolen House
2014
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Change
1962
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A Woman Judge
2011
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Barbie: A Fairy Secret
2010
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Tehran, Tehran