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Zarina Bhimji

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constructing a musical composition, to explore what archives do, how they categorise and how they reveal institutional ideologies. The work also combines digital and physical crafts – including the use of embroidery for the first time in Bhimji's practice – drawing attention to textures and traces, light and shadow. Her latest work, Lead White has been commissioned by
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Bhimji’s photographs capture human traces in landscape and architecture. Walls are a recurring motif, attracting her through their absorption of history as they become a record of those who built, lived within and ultimately abandoned them. Despite a conspicuous absence of the body, the photographs
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is a meditation on power and beauty. It is the culmination of a decade-long investigation conducted over multiple continents, delving into national archives to capture details of words, lines, stamps and embossing. Bhimji creates poetic narratives by editing and repeating these details, as if
210:... Bhimji captures her sites with relentless formal concerns intended to convey qualities of universal human emotion and existence – grief, longing, love and hope. Concrete places become abstract sentiments as the physical rhythms of landscape and architecture become psychological. 154: 1061: 1143: 1163: 1138: 1021: 738: 786: 1133: 1123: 143:, studying legal documents and the stories of those who formed British power in those countries, carrying out interviews and taking photographs. 1153: 147: 512: 47: 1069: 997: 939: 548: 1158: 615: 1183: 1148: 866: 1168: 223: 565: 746: 1128: 83: 837: 218:, London, January–March 2012, which traced 25 years of her work. It opened with the joint premiere of her film, 1173: 79: 801: 1178: 1118: 247: 75: 444:
Shocks to the System: Social and Political Issues in Recent British Art from the Arts Council Collection
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Passing Glances: Works by 5 Artists Presented by Artangel in Collaboration with the British Library
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Recordings, a select bibliography of contemporary African, Afro-Caribbean and Asian British art
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emit a human presence. Reference to it is sometimes explicit – a row of guns awaiting use in
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and the Whitechapel Gallery. The film was inspired by trade and migration across the
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2012: Zarina Bhimji, Whitechapel Gallery, London and Kunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland
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and the subsequent loss and grief caused. The photographs were exhibited at
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gallery in London and Zurich. Her Turner Prize display included a film,
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Consisting of over 100 unframed photographs and multiple embroideries,
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In 2012, the first major survey exhibition of her work was held at
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Morrill, Rebecca; Wright, Karen; Elderton, Louisa, eds. (2019).
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Bhimji's work is held in the following public collections:
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1989: Intimate Distance, the Photographers' Gallery, London
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In 2001, Bhimji had her first solo exhibition in the U.S.,
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Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead and UK tour
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in 2002, and is represented in the public collections of
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11 in June to September 2002 with her 16 mm film.
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Spectrums Women's Photography Festival Open Exhibition
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The Image Employed: the Use of Narrative in Black Art
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London. 765:International Center of Photography 706:Mercer, Kobena (9 September 2002). 415:, City Art Gallery, Leeds (toured) 314:Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany 86:(1987–1989). Her work appeared in 14: 487:2003: Istanbul Biennale, Istanbul 359:, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London 1134:Alumni of De Montfort University 1124:Ugandan people of Indian descent 477:Walker Arts Centre, Minneapolis 461:The Impossible Science of Being 387:, Chelsea School of Art, London 338:, Chelsea School of Art, London 1: 682:"Zarina Garden-Press Release" 543:. Phaidon Press. p. 62. 470:, Guggenheim Museum, New York 345:, Brixton Art Gallery, London 451:On Taking a Normal Situation 380:, Camden Arts Centre, London 146:In 2003 Bhimji received the 34:. 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Index

Zarina Bhimji monograph.
London
Turner Prize
Documenta 11
Tate
Museum of Contemporary Art
Moderna Museet
Mbarara
Uganda
Leicester Polytechnic
Goldsmiths' College
Slade School of Fine Art
University College London
Creative Camera
Ten.8
Talwar Gallery
EASTinternational
Mary Kelly
Peter Wollen
documenta
India
East Africa
Zanzibar
International Center for Photography

Turner Prize
Uganda
Idi Amin
Haunch of Venison
Waiting

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