Renée Green: Secret originates from the artist's 1993 residency in Le Corbusier's semi-abandoned housing block in Firminy, France. Combining black-and-white photographs, three-channel video, and multilingual soundtracks, the work examines the building as modern ruin through personal observation and social document. Green juxtaposes her diaristic voice against the realities of immigrant residents and an international art exhibition, probing utopia, inhabitancy, and travel. Expanded in 2006 and 2010, the work returns now to New York where it was first shown.
