STEVE McQUEEN
Caribs’ Leap/ Western Deep
In 2002, Steve McQueen realised his most ambitious and moving cinematic installation to date. Caribs’ Leap/Western Deep creates a visual record of the real and the remembered; a fall from the heavens and a descent into darkness. Caribs’ Leap was named for a coastal point in Grenada where, in 1651, a group of Caribs threw themselves off a cliff to their deaths rather than surrender to the French. The film addresses the everyday occurrence of life and death in Sauteurs. Western Deep follows miners into the depths of the Tautona gold mines in Johannesburg, down through the claustrophobic lifts and shafts, with only the miners’ lamps to light the way.
The book includes a stunning collection of over two hundred colour stills from the films. A critical essay by Jean Fisher explores McQueen’s filmmaking techniques and their relationship to storytelling, history and the relationship between the image and the real.
Published by Artangel, Documenta,
Museu de Arte Contemporãnea de Serralves and Fundació Antoni Tàpies
129 pp, 235 colour images, 265 x 210 mm
Price: £19.95
Order no: AA 15
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