Elias Mung’ora works along inquiries of personal and national archives and memory. It becomes a space to interrogate the non-static nature of memory, its inseparable relationship with the present and future, and how it is, in fact, a liminal space of indefinite meaning and knowledge production.
Mung’ora is a member of Brush Tu, a
Nairobi-based artists’ collective, and has participated in several exhibitions
including The Ghost in The Machine, Montague Contemporary, USA (2020),
Kikulacho, British Institute in East Africa, 2018; Remains, Waste &
Metonymy II: Sensing Nairobi, British Institute in East Africa, 2017; Stranger
Times, Circle Art Gallery, 2017; Young Guns, Circle Art Gallery, 2017. Solo
shows include Journal Entries, Little Art Gallery, 2016. He was the winner of
the 2016 Manjano Art Prize in Nairobi, and a top ten finalist in the 2018
edition of the Barclays L’Atelier competition.
