Mountain of Salt: a Covid commentary from found images – in pictures

Bindi Vora’s Mountain of Salt is a collection of found images and appropriated text conceived as a response to the Covid pandemic. The wry, sometimes humorous, text-based series of collages focuses on the language used over the past year and was developed from collecting words and sentences derived from politicians, journalists and other individuals. Vora says she is ‘interested in how we might unite and reflect on this time currently being experienced in our individual and collective ways, as we all live in the hope of clambering out and making it to the other side unscathed. This curious collection of phrases speaks to the dissemination of language and its effect upon us’

Bindi Vora’s work is on display, alongside Alys Tomlinson’s Lost Summer, at Charing Cross hospital in London until September



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from The Guardian https://ift.tt/3x9HUiR

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