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- ISBN 9781912122189
- Dimensions: 165 x 240mm
- Publication Date: 19 Nov 2018
- Publisher: HENI Publishing
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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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.'
Zarina Bhimji is an artist, specialising in the mediums of photography and video installation. Her work is kept in collections around the world, including Tate Britain and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. In 2007 she was shortlisted for the Turner Prize. She lives and works in London.
