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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Fatima Tayob MoosaDiscarded Desperation , 2023Oil and beeswax on treated canvas35 3/8 x 31 1/2 x 11 3/4 in
90 x 80 x 30 cmFatima Tayob Moosa, Discarded Desperation , 2023$ 1,900.00 -
Fatima Tayob MoosaEffervescent, 2023Oil on canvas47 1/4 x 59 in
120 x 150 cmFatima Tayob Moosa, Effervescent, 2023$ 2,900.00 -
Fatima Tayob MoosaGrace under pressure, 2023Oil on canvas21 5/8 x 19 3/4 in
55 x 50 cmFatima Tayob Moosa, Grace under pressure, 2023$ 950.00 -
Fatima Tayob MoosaIf there was an end in sight, 2023Oil on canvas47 1/4 x 39 3/8 in
120 x 100 cmFatima Tayob Moosa, If there was an end in sight, 2023$ 2,300.00 -
Fatima Tayob MoosaIt's been a build-up , 2023Oil on canvas47 1/4 x 39 3/8 in
120 x 100 cmFatima Tayob Moosa, It's been a build-up , 2023$ 2,500.00 -
Fatima Tayob MoosaPiece of prayer 1, 2023Oil on canvas10 x 10 in
25.5 x 25.5 cmFatima Tayob Moosa, Piece of prayer 1, 2023$ 550.00 -
Fatima Tayob MoosaPrayer for love, 2023Oil on canvas37 3/8 x 52 3/4 in
95 x 134 cmFatima Tayob Moosa, Prayer for love, 2023$ 2,500.00 -
Fatima Tayob MoosaResidue, 2023Oil and beeswax on canvas59 x 47 1/4 in
150 x 120 cmFatima Tayob Moosa, Residue, 2023$ 3,200.00 -
Fatima Tayob MoosaSeeking peace, 2023Oil on canvas29 7/8 x 29 7/8 in
76 x 76 cmFatima Tayob Moosa, Seeking peace, 2023$ 1,700.00 -
Fatima Tayob MoosaSomewhere smaller , 2023Oil on canvas21 5/8 x 19 3/4 in
55 x 50 cmFatima Tayob Moosa, Somewhere smaller , 2023$ 1,150.00 -
Fatima Tayob MoosaThe only way out is through, 2023Oil on canvas39 3/8 x 31 1/2 in
100 x 80 cmFatima Tayob Moosa, The only way out is through, 2023$ 2,000.00 -
Fatima Tayob MoosaIt feels sublime to me, 2022Acrylic on voile15 3/4 x 21 5/8 in
40 x 55 cmFatima Tayob Moosa, It feels sublime to me, 2022$ 950.00 -
Fatima Tayob MoosaLandscape, 202231 1/2 x 35 3/8 x 11 3/4 in
80 x 90 x 30 cmFatima Tayob Moosa, Landscape, 2022$ 1,900.00 -
Fatima Tayob MoosaLet it Pass, 2022Oil on Canvas39 3/8 x 23 5/8 in
100 x 60 cmFatima Tayob Moosa, Let it Pass, 2022$ 1,700.00 -
Fatima Tayob MoosaWithdrawn, 2022Oil on treated Canvas31 1/2 x 15 3/4 in
80 x 40 cmFatima Tayob Moosa, Withdrawn, 2022$ 1,450.00 -
Fatima Tayob MoosaWithin Realms , 2021Oil, beeswax and tissue paper on canvas44 9/100 x 34 1/4
112 x 87Fatima Tayob Moosa, Within Realms , 2021$ 2,700.00
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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