Are you heading to the new Steve McQueen exhibition at Tate Modern this weekend? The British artist and director is best known for his bold advances in film, from hard-hitting features such as 12 Years a Slave, to innovative moving image installations. The show—the first UK survey of McQueen’s work in over twenty years—spans his earliest film, Exodus (1992/97), through to more recent endeavours like his haunting work, Ashes (2002-15). The two-channel video installation pays heartfelt homage to a young fisherman McQueen met and filmed in Grenada in 2002, who was killed by drug dealers the following year. The artist’s masterful evocation of time and place—regardless of format or subject matter—never fails to pack a powerful punch.
