Sunshine State, exhibition (31 March – 31 July 2022) at Pirelli HangarBicocca, is organized in collaboration with Tate Modern, London, where the artist had presented a first version, titled ?Steve McQueen”, in 2020.
The title of the exhibition evokes the artist’s new work, Sunshine State (2022), commissioned and produced by the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) 2022.
Catalogue extract, the essay In the Dead of the Light: Steve McQueen’s Sunshine State by Cora Gilroy-Ware.
Fig. 1
[…] how do we know this man is American? With no name or record of his identity, he could be one of the thousands of men brought to Florida from the West Indies during this same era to carry out temporary
Photographer unknown, African American man picking oranges at a contest in a grove, 1952, black and
white photoprint, State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory.
agricultural labour, most cutting sugar cane, some working in orange groves.
Related : Also, from State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory; same caption.
