Marian Goodman Gallery in Paris has launched its 2016 season with an exhibition by British artist and filmmaker Steve McQueen.While McQueen is best known as the Oscar-winning director of “12 Years a Slave,” he is also a Turner Prize-winning visual artist with a practice spanning video, sculpture, and photography.“I want to put the public in a situation where everyone becomes acutely sensitive to themselves, to their body and respiration,” McQueen has said of his work.For his fifth exhibition at Marian Goodman Gallery, McQueen is presenting a new neon light work titled “Remember Me” and his latest film installation, “Ashes.”Composed of two films projected simultaneously on either side of a free-hanging screen, the film installation “Ashes” is a juxtaposition of life and death, boundless space and enclosed space.On one side, a young man from Grenada named Ashes sits at the prow of a boat sailing the Caribbean Sea, while on the other is a film shot eight years later in a Grenada cemetery.“Life and death have always lived side by side, in every aspect of life,” said McQueen. “We live with ghosts in our everyday.”With “Remember Me,” McQueen has taken an intriguing detour from his usual practice, creating a wall installation comprising dozens of unique handwritten versions of the phrase “Remember Me” reproduced in dark blue neon lights.Steve McQueen’s exhibition at Marian Goodman Gallery is on show until February 27. Click the slideshow to see images of the exhibition.
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