Overview
Artist Statement
 

Through the  physical act of making, my artwork can be described as a generative process where movement, colour, and form are explored through notions of invocation. Resonance is embraced as there is a distinct translation from the emotive to the tangible. Perceptions are interpreted into physicality with a vigilant awareness of states of being, conscious of shifting connections of depth, weight and intensity.

 

Canvas is a prayer mat and paint the prayer, translating ideas of metaphysical energy, through fluidity and weight of paint and medium. The repetitive application of paint in smearing bodily movements, dripping and pouring, denote different states of invocation, inspired by Abstract Expressionist action painting and the Impressionists investigation of light through paint. An exploration of paint and materiality as alchemical substances take on spiritual meaning through metamorphosis, surrendering to unaccountable changes within the process. This notion of process is inspired by James Elkins book What  Painting Is; where he says ‘Artistic processes are arrangements and transmutations of substances: but sometimes they also are the substances’, as such resonance is a substance.

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Biography

Fatima Tayob Moosa was born in 1983 in Johannesburg, South Africa. She received a BA  Interior Design in 2008 at the Greenside Design Center, College of Design in  Johannesburg and in 2018, completed a BA Hons Fine Art at the University of  Hertfordshire in Edinburg through the Interactive Design Insitute. She was a participant of  the 2019 RMB Talent Unlocked Program in association with Vansa and Assemblage where  her work was shown at the Turbine Art Fair. She has taken part in numerous group shows  locally and took part in the Amsterdam art festival with The Center for the Less Good  Idea. In 2019 she was invited by the South African Foundation of Contmeporary Art to  take part in a 6 week residency in Knyna on Entabeni Farm, South Africa. 

Fatima is a process-based artist who works in multiple media including, yet not limited to  painting, drawing and photography, with a focus on the idea of how elements can evolve  to create new narratives and meaning. Her practice is strongly inspired by the relationship between physical and metaphysical energy which she explores through process and  materiality.  

 

Fatima currently lives and works in Johannesburg with a studio based at The Bag Factory.

 

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