Zarina Bhimji: Flagging it up at Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh showcases the work of Uganda-born British artist Zarina Bhimji, who creates photographs, films and installations which engage with themes such as institutional power and subjectivity. Her work grows from observation and felt-sense, and is rooted in a careful use of colour and light. Embracing slippages and ambiguities, it is evocative rather than descriptive or documentary in its pace, setting and mood. This exhibition spans Bhimji’s career, beginning with She Loved to Breathe – Pure Silence (1987), a photo-text installation exploring politics, voice, beauty and love as forms of resistance, right up to her most recent work, the film Blind Spot. Shot in London this summer, it deals with ideas of home. Also included are Bhimji’s first film, Out of Blue (2002), an allusive exploration of the extermination and erasure of particular groups by a state, and Waiting (2007), an atmospheric wander around a stilled factory which processed sisal (a tropical plant) into twine.
Title:Zarina Bhimji: Flagging it up
Times:
Daily, 11:00 - 18:00
From: 28 Oct 2023
To: 28 Jan 2024
Venue:
Fruitmarket
Fruitmarket
45 Market Street
Edinburgh
Edinburgh & the Lothians
EH1 1DF
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