Format:
191 Seiten
,
24 cm
ISBN:
9781912122189
,
1912122189
Content:
In 'Lead White' Zarina Bhimji explores the history of Zanzibar. Her expert curatorial eye has scoured national archives and found documents bearing witness to the country's past and by extension its present. Filtered through Bhimji's artistic vision, these documents become a poetic exploration of numerous topics including national health, education and contemporary Africa. The documents collected by Bhimji come from a wide variety of places. There are legal and constitutional documents, but also photographs and personal effects. A particular point of interest in Lead White is paper and how texture and light function as an echo of the themes investigated here. This substantial monograph marks a departure of sorts for Bhimji. In this work she incorporates to her new mediums of digital photography and the traditional craft of embroidery. This interplay, in Gallagher's words, forms a 'tension between present and past, and enhances the relationship between the specific and the universal.'
Content:
The genesis of Lead White stretches back to when Bhimji first visited the Zanzibar National Archive in 1998. She has searched through land records, maps and correspondence from the Berlin Conference of 1884-5, which started the European colonial 'scramble for Africa'. Her camera focuses on the minute details of first-hand records - a stamp, a home address, a signature - and blows them up to an epic scale, revealing shadows, the ambiguities and the delicacy of otherwise institutional objects. Bhimji says her work is about beauty and issues that are personal and universal. She likens her process to a forensic investigator, looking at records of treaties signed and territories mapped, searching for evidence of what crimes could have been carried out.--Tate website
Note:
Colophon: "Published on the occasion of Tate Britain's "Spotlight" display of Zarina Bhimji's Lead White, 19 November 2018-2 June 2019."
Language:
English
Keywords:
Bhimji, Zarina 1963-
;
Fotografie
;
Ausstellungskatalog
;
Bildband
Author information:
Gallagher, Ann
Author information:
Bhimji, Zarina 1963-
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