Artist field note

Steve McQueen

The moving image makes bodily perception historically alert.

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Western Deep by Steve McQueen
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Western Deep

2002

A descent into a South African gold mine makes extraction a sensory experience of darkness and heat.

The five in one idea

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