Bindi Vora
Vora’s text based work focuses on the provocative language used since March 2020 to describe the pandemic on social media, by journalists and politicians. Since the series began, the work has continued to evolve, it now encompasses issues well beyond the virus – conversations around oppression, racism and witnessing trauma but also to the more lighthearted, comical moments in these times where we take solace. This curious collection of phrases speaks to the dissemination of language and its affect upon us.
Bindi Vora
Mountain of Salt
Bindi Vora’s ongoing series Mountain of Salt comprised of found images, appropriated text and digital shape collages, were born as a response to our current narrative surrounding our everyday ‘normal’. Since Covid-19 unfolded in the UK and across the world, the artist became acutely aware of the amplified landscape in which we are living, in which we cling to the news for updates, statistics and curves; analysing the myriad forms of information in our own way. For Vora, this new normal highlighted the way in which language, words and speech have a physical presence, a bearing upon us and carry weight.
In these text based collages Vora focuses on the provocative language and began to collect words and sentences derived from politicians, journalists and individuals who were sharing their commentary or thoughts, at first related to the pandemic, but it soon expanded.
The work has continued to evolve and it now encompasses issues well beyond the virus – conversations around oppression, racism and witnessing trauma but also to the more light hearted, comical moments in these times where we take solace. This curious collection of phrases speaks to the dissemination of language and its affect upon us.
Edition details for the images in Mountain of Salt, are as follows:
Found photograph, appropriated text and digital shapes on Hahnemühle fine art pearl paper, 8 x 8 inches, 20.32 x 20.32 cm, Edition of 5 + 1 AP (Artist Proof), Signed and numbered on verso
Each composition is available as an edition of 5 for £300, unframed plus VAT where applicable. For an acquisition of 5 or more, the prints are £250 each, unframed plus VAT where applicable.
One single edition of the series is also available to acquire as a whole. As the series is ongoing, the collector will continue to receive work until Vora concludes this project. As of April 2021, Mountain of Salt now encompasses 349 works. You can download the full PDF of Mountain of Salt here.
10% of profits from sales of the series will go to Hospital Rooms, an arts and mental health charity that commissions extraordinary artworks for NHS mental health inpatient units across the UK.
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Bindi Vora is a contemporary photographic artist. Her practice utilizes various analogue processes, often taking inspiration from her everyday surroundings, which include her personal archive. Vora’s work teases out subtle marks and pigments within the materials she uses, such as negatives and photographic paper; the results often create vast spaces of colour, light and subtle detail that contemplate ideas of perception and representation of the photographic print. She is interested in the way materials or ephemera can be reused or recycled to create new narratives but can be traced back to other works, almost like interconnected tissues.
In 2013, Vora graduated from University of Westminster with a BA (Hons) in Photographic Arts. Her works have been exhibited in a number of group exhibitions in the United Kingdom and across the world including The Photographers’ Gallery, Yinka Shonibare’s Guest Projects, UK; 180 The Strand, UK; Victoria & Albert Museum of Childhood, UK; Phoenix Gallery, Exeter; Cultural Centre of Belgrade, Serbia; Benaki Museum, Athens; Art Stage, Singapore; amongst others. Her works have been published in PYLOT, Capricious Magazine and Loose Associations, and has appeared on various websites including I Heart Women, Hyperallergic, A Corner With; being named as one to watch by Art Fetch.
In 2014, Vora self-published her first photographic book In the blue light we failed., which has recently been acquired by The Women’s Art Library at Goldsmiths University, Franklin Furnace Artist Book Collection / Museum of Modern Art, New York, Self Publish Be Happy, London amongst others. In 2019, she was commissioned by the Hospital Rooms to produce a work for the Junipers, a NHS Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit in Exeter, Devon.
