ZARINA HASHMI - I notice her work has similar motifs to the ‘Bundle’ drawings, in addition her work focuses a lot on displacement. I discovered her trying to wade through a lecture I found by Homi Bhabha. He’s messing with me in a wonderful way. He hits all the notes that connect. I think I’m actually starting to really enjoy researching. Language, displacement, translation, liminal. And I didn’t realise that he was so closely connected to the arts.
I need to investigate her work more.
57:30 These material practices that I have termed the poses of facture are more than mere surfaces of inscription or materials submitted to transformation. They're as active in their signification of cultural translation as any other discursive or semiotic system.
And I have often thought that we have been so trapped in the idea of face-to-faceness or in the idea of binaries or polarities, things that I have resisted thinking about, forms a foreignness or otherness or alterity that there are other ways in which the making of work is also the translation too, the making of work is the encounter with alterity and I find that very much in her(Zarina Hashmi) case.
Bhabha Homi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVQcdbSV6OI