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Steve McQueen's Giardini: A Fairy Tale
- Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art
- Duke University Press
- Number 27, 2010
- pp. 6-13
- Article
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A visually sumptuous film of thirty minutes, Steve McQueen's Giardini (2009) comprises two side-by-side projections of a series of evocative vignettes that play out in the shadow of the Venice Biennale. This essay offers a close reading of the film, drawing out its unexpected intertwinement of aesthetics and politics.