White Chapel Gallery - Zarina Bhimji

Whilst I was unable to attend the Bath/ Bristol trip I thought I'd make my own and head up to London for the day and explore some exhibitions that I've been eager to see. The first gallery that I went to was the White Chapel Gallery where I was introduced to the work of Zarina Bhimji...

Zarina Bhimji - Your sadness it drunk (2001-06)

Fleeing Uganda with only two dresses and a cardigan at the age of eleven was Zarina and her sister as they fled the wrath of dictator Idi Amin. Years later, British refugee Zarina Bhimji is opening an exhibition at the White Chapel Gallery offering her work of these exotic and absent landscapes. Her work consists of a retrospective beauty exploring the history the human presence that it has had on abandoned and urban structures. Bhimji describes her work as a poetic adventure, a pictorial dialogue that offers a unique and enigmatic experience.

In regards to Bhimji's work I'm considering writing about her work from my visual exploration review as I believe it will benefit it in relation to landscapes. I find her photographs to be enormously sensual for the reason that they're so bare yet complex contextualising her thoughts. At first your made aware that the images had or no longer have the human presence in, however as the viewer depicts the image you begin to discover subtle clues to what the history of this structure entails. In some sense I find that her images are personifying the lives of the inhabitants, the scars that have been left behind that create a social and emotional upheaval affecting an audience.