Between Memory, Material, and Place

Zarah Mangera is a UK- based artist and photographer working with photography, installation, and found materials to explore memory, belonging, and disaporic identity.

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Zarah Mangera, A Place Half Remembered, 2026, photograph transfer on reclaimed surface exploring diasporic memory and loss of place.
A weathered teak wood panel with chipped blue paint, bearing the word 'Zarah Mangera' in black lettering.
About the Practice

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.

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Close-up of old, weathered wooden planks with an image of a woman holding wooden sticks above her head.
A photograph of a rural area, power lines, and houses, mounted on a brown board, with a small brick at the bottom right corner.
Dark sketch of a ox-drawn cart with two oxes in the foreground, two men sitting inside the cart, lantern on the cart, and trees in the background, drawn with expressive strokes.
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