题 目：Steve McQueen: Bounty / 史蒂夫·麦奎因：赏金

作 者：Steve McQueen

出 版：Mack，2026

装 帧：精装，132页

语 种：英文

尺 寸：24*24*1 cm

艺术家兼电影制作人史蒂夫·麦奎因在其新作中继续探索殖民历史及其遗留影响。这本新书收录了关于格林纳达植物群落的沉思式摄影作品。这些图像拍摄于2024年夏季的一次岛屿之旅，审视了风景与历史创伤之间的联系，将格林纳达的植物生命视为在这片饱受剥削之苦的土地上永恒的美丽标记。这些图像以生动的色彩呈现，折射出蕴含在岛屿植物朴素形态之中的历史、遗产与生存之间错综复杂的交织。麦奎因以已故圣卢西亚诗人德里克·沃尔科特献给母亲的挽歌《恩赐》为灵感触点，采用了同样富有诗意的感性，敏锐地捕捉到岛屿风景的坚韧不拔，以及“恩赐”一词所内含的双重性——既指自然的慷慨丰饶，也指支付给捕奴者的赏金。植根于对壮丽自然世界的深切敬畏，《恩赐》邀请读者以切身感受去体悟自然在人类历史的残酷现实面前所展现出的无声坚韧。

本书收录了沃尔科特的诗作《恩赐》以及作家兼诗人迪翁·布兰德的一篇新文章。

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Artist and filmmaker Steve McQueen continues his exploration of colonial history and its legacies in this new book comprised of meditative photographs of Grenada’s flora. Taken on a trip to the island in the summer of 2024, these images reckon with the connections between landscape and historical trauma, studying Grenada’s plant life as permanent markers of beauty in a land ravaged by exploitation. Rendered in vivid colour, the images reflect the complex interlocking of history, heritage, and survival contained in the simplicity of the island flora. Taking as his touchpoint the late Saint Lucian poet Derek Walcott’s elegy to his mother, ‘The Bounty’, McQueen’s project adopts a similarly poetic sensibility, attuned to the resilience of the island’s landscape and the dualities of the word ‘bounty’, which alludes to both the generosity of nature and the sum paid to slave catchers. Grounded in a deep reverence for the sublime natural world, Bounty invites a visceral engagement with the silent endurance of nature despite the grim realities of human history.

The book includes Walcott's poem ‘The Bounty’ and a new text by writer and poet Dionne Brand

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