Murmur is part a series of works produced along with Zarina Bhimji’s film Out of Blue, which was her first film, and commissioned for Documenta 11 in Kassel in 2002, and subsequently shown as part of the Art Now series at Tate Britain in 2003.
In 1972, a year after Idi Amin seized power in Uganda, he ordered the expulsion of all Asians from Uganda. At the time, young Bhimji and her family hid and took refuge in a small village before fleeing to the UK in 1974. During this time, she witnessed the atrocities of Amin’s reign. For Out of Blue, Bhimji did years of research and returned to Uganda for the first time in 24 years. “I was interested in the traces of war; its unspeakable horror, rites of passage, of re-building”.

Zarina Bhimji is a Ugandan Indian artist based in London. She was nominated for the Turner Prize in 2007, exhibited at Documenta, and represented in the public collections of Tate, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, and Moderna Museet in Stockholm. Bhimji employs a range of objects and processes, from mixed media to installation and photography, which explores the complexity of human experience – loss, conflict, grief, tenderness and beauty.