Frieze London: Laila Majid

Laila Majid’s practice explores how material, light, and spatial arrangement shape perception. Working primarily with industrial and architectural materials, she creates sculptural installations that operate between opacity and transparency, inviting viewers to experience space through partial visibility, reflection, and movement. Her work resists fixed viewpoints, unfolding gradually through bodily navigation and spatial encounter. 

For Frieze Focus, Majid presents an entirely new body of work produced specifically for the fair, drawing on research for her forthcoming exhibition at the Sharjah Art Foundation in June - October 2026. The central work is a freestanding sculptural installation made of translucent latex, suspended on a track and arranged in a gentle curve that subtly interrupts the booth’s linear architecture. A new photographic work is positioned behind the latex structure and remains only faintly visible through it, requiring viewers to enter and move through the space to encounter the image. Installed in dialogue with this spatial intervention is a new wall-based sculptural work composed of elongated metallic panels. Its reflective surface produces a muted, unstable mirror, extending Majid’s interest in material restraint and spatial choreography. Her practice centres on material sensitivity, spatial intervention, and embodied ways of seeing.