Between Memory, Material, and Place

Zarah Mangera is a UK based artist working with photography and installation to explore memory, belonging, and diasporic experience. Her practice engages with inherited histories, fragmented archives, and everyday materials to examine how identity is shaped across generations and geographies.

Through material processes of construction, erosion, and assemblage, her work treats memory not as something fixed or complete, but as unstable, partial, and continually re-formed. Photography operates both as image and object, extending into sculptural and site-responsive installations that hold traces of absence, displacement, and continuity.

Positioned within the in-between, between past and present, here and elsewhere, her practice approaches art-making as a form of inquiry, offering spaces where memory is encountered, negotiated, and reimagined.

Works

Each work emerges from what is remembered, imagined, and carried forward through the body and material.

‘As He Walked Past’

Date: Dec 2025

‘To Remember You By’

Date: Nov 2025

‘Chasing Kites’

Date: Nov 2025

‘The Road Between Us’

Date: Nov 2025

‘For a Moment, We Didn’t Belong’

Date: May 2025

‘This Was Once Our Place’

Date: May 2025

‘Sacred Land’

Date: May 2025

‘Barber Shop’

Date: May 2025