For over twenty years Faza Merajdin has steadfastly committed to the investigation of light. Her work is an outcome of consistently conversant practices in printmaking and painting with each acting as process and investigative space for the other. Faza uses patterns derived from sacred geometry as the means to hold light. Her paintings, informed by the drag and blur of screen printing processes, serve as planes of distortion and sites of vibration.

Faza’s exploration of pattern stems from her visits to family in Kenya. The complexity of light in indoor markets in Nairobi, filtered through perforated screens (jaalis), enables constantly mobile patterns and shadows to dominate the objective reality of place and space. Faza’s paintings juxtapose the active play of peripheral light and shade in everyday experience with the meditative stillness of the jaali in the Muslim mystical tradition. The fleeting glance, the fragile screen with its voids and disappearances, and intense light, are explored as sites of blindness, revelation, and inquiry.  

Born in Karachi, Pakistan in 1973, Faza Merajdin lives and works in London. In 1997, Faza graduated with a BA in Fine Art from the Slade School of Fine Art.