She Loved to Breathe - Pure Silence
Photograph
1987 (made)
1987 (made)
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Photographs and cloth sandwiched between perspex. Images include birds, shoes and jewellery. Part 4 includes latex gloves.
Object details
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| Title | She Loved to Breathe - Pure Silence (series title) |
| Materials and techniques | Photographs, cloth, perspex |
| Brief description | Zarina Bhimji, 'She Loved to Breathe - Pure Silence', 1987. Part one of installation piece, two gelatin silver prints and fabric between perspex. |
| Physical description | Photographs and cloth sandwiched between perspex. Images include birds, shoes and jewellery. Part 4 includes latex gloves. |
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| Object history | She Loved to Breathe- Pure Silence (1987) is a response to the forced virginity tests that women from South Asia were submitted to upon arrival in the UK during the 1970s. |
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| Bibliographic reference | Zarina Bhimji London: Whitechapel Gallery, 2012. ISBN: 9781905464517. |
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| Accession number | PH.7208:1-1987 |
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| Record created | June 30, 2009 |
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