Bindi Vora (D)
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Bindi Vora
Mountain of Salt
Bindi Vora’s ongoing series Mountain of Salt was born as a response to our current narrative of the everyday ‘normal’. Since covid-19 unfolded in the UK and across the world, the photographer became acutely aware of the amplified landscape in which we are living. We cling to the news for updates, statistics and curves; and in our own ways analyzing the myriad forms of information. 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.
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.
Each composition is available as an edition of 15 for £300, unframed plus VAT where applicable. For an acquisition of 5 or more, the prints are £250 each, unframed plus VAT where applicable.
The series is also available to acquire as a whole for £40,000, unframed plus VAT where applicable. As the series is ongoing, the collector will continue to receive work until Vora concludes this project. Mountain of Salt now encompasses more than 200 works.
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
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. Bindi’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 color, light and subtle detail that contemplate ideas of perception and representation of the photographic print.
In 2013, Bindi graduated from University of Westminster with a BA in Photographic Arts. She has exhibited in a number of group exhibitions in the United Kingdom and across Europe; has been published in PYLOT Magazine, Capricious Magazine as well as appearing on various websites including The Photographers’ Gallery, Troika Editions, Paper Journal and For Example; being named as one to watch by Art Fetch.
She published her first photographic book In the blue light we failed. in 2014 which has been recently acquired by The Museum of Modern Art, NY, The Women’s Art Library at Goldsmith’s University, London, Indie Photobook Library, New York, The Hellenic Centre for Photography, Athens amongst others.In addition, she is also a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Westminster on the BA Photography course. In 2019 she undertook a commission by the Hospital Rooms at Juniper the Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit in Exeter, Devon. She lives and works in London.
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