સફર – journey, (2024)

Inspired by the newspaper archives at the McMillan Memorial Library in Nairobi. These mixed-media sculptural works include a metal tea urn – objects evocative of those carried across borders in 1972 following Idi Amin’s expulsion of Asians from Uganda.

The works draw from visual material gathered through archival research, tracing obfuscated narratives that resist easy recollection. Using photo-transfer techniques derived from newspaper imagery alongside drawings from family archives, the works map parallel trajectories of migration, displacement and memory.

Circular forms recur throughout the series as cut-outs from postcards and applications of gold leaf, functioning as gestures of mapping, movement and the dispersal of people and communities.

Mixed media: 24-karat gold leaf, pencil, gouache, photo-transfer, postcards, plaited silk, object, chain and tea urn; each 80 x 30 x 15 cm

From the series સફર (journey), 2024

The powers surge, keeping the ghost inside
Mixed media (gold leaf, pencil, gouache, photo-transfer, postcards, plaited silk, teddy bear, pink chain and tea urn); 80 x 30 x 15 cm

The powers surge, keeping the ghost inside (detail)

Hands outstretched, rooted and entangled. Look up. Wait for it.
Mixed media (gold leaf, pencil, gouache, photo-transfer, postcards, plaited silk, magenta chain and tea urn); 80 x 30 x 15 cm

Hands outstretched, rooted and entangled. Look up. Wait for it. (detail)

Longing for another dance between the trees, always in spite of everything.
Mixed media (gold leaf, pencil, gouache, photo-transfer, postcards, plaited silk, framed family photograph, purple chain and tea urn); 80 x 30 x 15 cm

Longing for another dance between the trees, always in spite of everything. (detail)

I’ve seen you, dappled by light
Mixed media (gold leaf, pencil, gouache, photo-transfer, postcards, plaited silk, ghungroo, blue chain and tea urn); 80 x 30 x 15 cm

I’ve seen you, dappled by light (detail)

Bindi Vora

સફર – journey, (2024)