Описание

Catalogue consists of still images from Caribs’ Leap and Western Deep and an essay by: Jean Fisher — Imitations of the Real: On Western Deep and Caribs’ Leap.

From the Artangel website: “McQueen’s project brought together two different experiences from two different places — from the island of Grenada, where McQueen’s parents were born, and from a working gold mine in South Africa. Caribs’ Leap journeys into the historical interior of the Caribbean island of Grenada. In 1651, rather than surrendering to French soldiers, a large number of Caribs threw themselves over the cliffs onto the rocks below. This ultimate act of resistance is one focus of McQueen’s film which was largely shot on location in Sauteurs in Grenada, where this act of collective sacrifice took place. Western Deep journeys into the physical interior of the deepest gold mine in the world, the Tautona mines near Johannesburg in South Africa. McQueen takes the viewer into the darkness and claustrophobia of the lifts and shafts, the dust and the noise of the working faces.”

Hardcover, 132 pages