Recent SAF exhibitions feature Laila Majid and Inaam Zafar

In Majid’s practice, sculptural and photographic works unfold through slow revelation. In Steam 07 (2026), a misted bathroom mirror captures a fleeting image shaped by steam and reflection. Reproduced as a UV print on a Dibond mirror, the work heightens the ambiguity of what is seen, allowing light, colour, and the viewer’s own reflection to become part of the image. Familiar and dreamlike at once, the work recalls a routine domestic moment.

The sculptural series Blinds (2026) continues this focus on interior spaces and the body. Installed within the space, the latex blinds cast a warm, human-toned light across the gallery while recalling curtains or partitions from domestic settings, evoking the atmosphere of everyday life.

The artist’s Chaser series (2025–present) explores a more playful and ethereal space. Inspired by cat toys, the artist creates sculptures from faux fur, feathers and tinsel that evoke movement, attraction and pursuit. This work is decorative and instinctual, and it explores themes of desire, playfulness and focus.

Zafar's work engages with the themes of death and decay and points to the body as a transient entity. These works – including Mourners (2026) – oscillate between figuration and abstraction, evoking bowed figures in collective grief.

Zafar’s subtle tonal shifts and close attention to form allow him to transform familiar objects into strange, dream-like images. In Bent Moon (2025), Majid takes something as mundane as a street lamp and makes it feel strangely intimate and alive, like a moon hanging low over the city. The picture in To See and Not See (2025) is never still. At first, it looks like two pills placed side by side, but after a moment a face begins to emerge, almost by accident, from within the composition. Automatism of Doubts (2026) carries the same sense of ambiguity: a circle of reaching hands suggests people gathering in secret, though the scene remains partly concealed, as if caught in passing.

By bringing together these works by Majid and Zafar, Body Quotidian explores how light, materials, gestures, and atmosphere filter bodily experience. Moving between domestic scenes and abstraction, the exhibition reflects on the quiet, everyday moments that continue to shape how the body sees and inhabits the world.

Body Quotidian is curated by Raja’a Khalid, an assistant curator at the Sharjah Art Foundation.

For more information about the exhibition, visit the website at sharjahart.org.