I FORGOT | Akshar Maganbeharie

6.11.25-2.12.2025

 

artHARARE presents South African multidisciplinary artist Akshar Maganbeharie in his first solo exhibition with the platform, titled I FORGOT. This body of work brings together paintings and drawings produced between 2021 and 2025, marking a distinct shift in Maganbeharie’s practice- from acrylic on canvas to the inclusion of charcoal and pastel- as he explores the act of drawing and the poetics of layering and looking.

Through abstraction, Maganbeharie continues to reference and dissect mass media and elements of popular culture. The exhibition’s title refers to a suite of six small drawings that evoke traces of memory and history, loosely drawn from the collective visual archive of internet culture.

Working across painting, drawing, and installation, Akshar Maganbeharie (b. 1995, South Africa) investigates the influence of digital media, consumer aesthetics, and pop cultural imagery on contemporary visual perception. His practice filters fragments of the everyday- advertising, online ephemera, music, and personal memory- into layered and gestural compositions.

Balancing immediacy and accumulation, his work reflects the sensory density of mediated life while sustaining a spirit of play and formal experimentation. Through mark-making, colour, and intuitive layering, Maganbeharie reimagines how painting and drawing can absorb and reframe the visual language of mass culture.