- Zarina Bhimji
Zarina Bhimji (born in
Mbarara ,Uganda , 1963) is a Ugandan Asian photographer and film maker, who was nominated for theTurner Prize in 2007.Reynolds, Nigel [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/05/08/nturner108.xml "Iraq protest camp shortlisted for Turner Prize"] "The Daily Telegraph" online,May 10 ,2007 . RetrievedMay 21 ,2007 ]Life and work
Zarina Bhimji was educated at Leicester Polytechnic (1982 – 1983),
Goldsmiths' College (1983 – 1986) andSlade School of Fine Art ,University College London (1987 – 1989). [ [http://www.zarinabhimji.com/biography_education.htm "Education",] zarinabhimji.com Education page. Retrieved21 May ,2007 ]In 2001 Bhimji won the EAST award at
EASTinternational selected byMary Kelly andPeter Wollen .The artist participated in Documenta 11 (June - September 2002) with her 16mm film "Out of Blue".
2003–2007, she travelled widely in
India ,East Africa andZanzibar , studying legal documents and the stories of those who formed British power in those countries, carrying out interviews and taking photographs. [http://www.tate.org.uk/liverpool/exhibitions/turnerprize2007/artists.shtm#zarina "Turner Prize: The shortlisted artists"] , Tate online. Retrieved29 November 2007 .]In 2003 Zarina Bhimji received the ICP's (International Center for Photography, New York City) Infinity Award in the Art Photography category. Other recipients for this award category have included David Hockney (1985), Chuck Close (1990), Cindy Sherman (1994), Sigmar Polke (1998), Andreas Gursky 2001), Shirin Neshat (2002) and Thomas Ruff (2006).
In 2007, she was shortlisted for the Turner Prize for photographs of
Uganda . Their theme is the expulsion of Asians from the country byIdi Amin and the subsequent loss and grief caused. The photos were in exhibitions atHaunch of Venison gallery in London and Zurich. Her Turner Prize display includes a film, "Waiting", which was shot in asisal -processing factory. This is on high-definition video, transferred from the original 35mm film.The
Tate gallery describes her work:cquote|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 emit a human presence. Reference to it is sometimes explicit – a row of guns awaiting use in "Illegal Sleep", yet sometimes only implied – the hanging, disconnected and electrical wires in my "Burnt my heart" ...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.She lives and works in London.
ee also
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Turner Prize Notes and references
External links
* [http://www.zarinabhimji.com Official web site]
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