Amie Siegel : I Diseredati / The Dispossessed 

Production | Acquisition Grant

At the invitation of Pompeii Commitment. Archaeological Matters, the contemporary art program of the Pompeii Archaeological Park, artist Amie Siegel will create a new large-scale film installation that draws upon her extensive onsite research.

Siegel’s projects often depict the hidden life of objects, revealing complicated genealogies of ownership, labor, and  origin—from the circulation of Le Corbusier furniture from Chandigarh, India in Provenance (2013), to migrant workers in UAE gold and oil factories in Asterisms (2021), to British class continuity revealed by the movement of 18^th century paintings in Bloodlines (2022), or the persistence of racialized depictions in French panoramic wallpaper in American homes in Vues/Views (2024). Siegel’s newly commissioned Pompeii work will extend the artist’s inquiry into the key issues her work addresses:  object circulation, cultural heritage and possession, and the critical questioning of western museological, archeological, cinematic, sculptural and photographic practices.