From now until the 28th January 2024 you can see a career spanning exhibition of artist Zarina Bhimji’s work, for free at Edinburgh Fruitmarket.
We had the pleasure of doing the sound design and audio post production on her latest film ‘Blind Spot’ (2023) which features as a 5.1 surround sound installation at the exhibition
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.
Bhimji is motivated by art’s ability to re-make experience in the mind of the viewer: ‘if I can’t make an object that describes a dusty room so someone else understands what it feels like to be in that room, then I’ve failed’. She wants to move people, and to tap into a way of thinking that is not embedded in words.
Her art communicates with the urgency that comes from working something out for yourself, rather than having been told what and how to think. Yet beauty is her principal method: ‘when you create something beautiful, you’re taking charge’.
A Still from 'Blind Spot'