Artist field note

Steve McQueen

The moving image makes bodily perception historically alert.

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Deadpan

1997

The artist restages Buster Keaton's collapsing facade, making vulnerability a repeated sculptural event.

The five in one idea

McQueen joins formal control to an unflinching attention to bodies placed under pressure.