ArtReview’s Art Lovers Movie Club features Amie Siegel’s Genealogies, screening online through 17 February.

Genealogies (2016) suggests the artist’s associative thinking by combining novels, films, images, advertising and soundtrack from multiple sources into a baroque invocation of image and artwork provenance, remake and copy. Siegel’s video traces the sculptural, gendered iconography of architecture and the female body, querying how these are visualised in cinema, and harnessed by advertising and music videos. Extending from Wilhelm Jensen’s novella Gradiva, to Freud, de Chirico, Rossellini, Curzio Malaparte, Moravia, Resnais, Robbe-Grillet, Godard, Pink Floyd and the Beastie Boys to images by brands Hugo Boss and Persol, Genealogies maps a broadly layered trajectory of ideas shared and reprised, speculating on homage, influence and originality, ultimately drawing together a genealogical lineage of adaptation, appropriation and recurrence stripped of hierarchical order.

Amie Siegel, Genealogies (2016)
ArtReview - Art Lovers Movie Club
1–17 February 2023