McQueen chronicles century of protest as portrait of Britain
The Guardian|November 27, 2024
After retelling the story of the Blitz from a new angle, Steve McQueen's next project is an alternative photographic history of protest and campaigning in Britain, spanning a century from the Suffragettes to the Iraq war protests.
Lanre Bakare
McQueen chronicles century of protest as portrait of Britain

Resistance will open at Margate's Turner Contemporary and the gallery's director says it will show how "photography has really acted as a kind of catalyst for change" in the UK.

Clarrie Wallis, who first worked with McQueen on Year 3, his school photo project at Tate Britain, said Resistance is a continuation of the artist and director's concentration on telling untold stories. "It's a portrait of Britain," she said. "It's understanding the shape of Britain, how we are, where we are. Steve has a commitment of bringing marginalised histories into the mainstream."

The exhibition starts in the year 1903 with images of the Suffragettes that were published by a supportive picture editor at the Daily Mirror, and finishes in 2003 with the Iraq war protests - the largest ever seen in the UK, as 1.5 million people took to the streets of London.

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