Perimeter Editions x Bindi Vora | London Book Launch
Perimeter is excited to announce the London launch of Bindi Vora's artist book Mountain of Salt (Perimeter Editions 084) at Offprint London 2023 (May 12-14). Join us on Saturday May 13 at the Perimeter table for a book signing by the artist. We would love to see you there!
The option to pre-order your copy of Bindi Vora – Mountain of Salt for pick-up at the London launch is still available. Purchase your copy here.
EVENT DETAILS
Offprint London 2023
Tate Modern, Turbine Hall
Bankside, London SE1 9TG
Free entry
3pm, Saturday May 13 2023
At the Perimeter table (Table 114)
ABOUT THE BOOK
Border closures, flight cancellations, stay-at-home orders; a collective populace clinging to news broadcasts, online analysis, social media, and hearsay. Few times in our living memory had language – however fragmented, misinformed, measured or rhetorical – carried such weight.
The early iterations of Mountain of Salt, Bindi Vora’s expansive series of text-based collage works, began to take form in this very context. Comprising found photographs and digital shape collages, each married to phrases and statements appropriated from news articles, press conferences, and social media, the 371-strong series traces the interweaving social, political and ideological arcs of the early phases of the pandemic, the post-Brexit era, and Black Lives Matter, landing squarely on the potency of language. ‘I, like many others, became acutely aware of the landscape in which we were living in, where everything felt amplified,’ says Vora. ‘Clinging to the news for updates, statistics and curves … for me it highlighted the way words and speech have a physical presence, bearing upon us and carrying weight.’
Through a cacophony of visual and textual fragments, this book – the London-based artist’s first with Perimeter Editions – revels in the tension between the micro and macro, the individual and collective, and the personal and political, teasing out and making connections between the individual events and linguistic armatures that come to build broader historical eras and movements. The outcomes are incisive, sober, witty, and wry, magnifying language’s ability to both define and dispel the collective mood. Drowning in a morass of information, phrases, photographs, infographics, throwaway lines, and revolutionary dictums, Vora’s visually poetic works echo the unfixed contemporary state. A place where alarm, agitation, desensitisation, and bemusement seem to intersect. Where words – free of hierarchy, nuance, and context – prove as absurd as they are critical. Mountain of Salt reads as a resolve to use them with great care.
448 pages, 15 x 19 cm, section-sewn cold glue, Perimeter Editions (Melbourne).