Practice Statement
Zahra Baqer works across moving image, sound, research, and immersive storytelling to explore emotional realities that often remain unseen or difficult to express. Rooted in lived experiences, conversations, and sensory atmosphere, her practice examines themes of care, memory, invisibility, emotional labour, and human connection.
Through fragmented narratives, layered sound, and spatial experiences, she creates works that translate internal and often overlooked conditions into something physically and emotionally perceptible. Rather than offering direct explanations, her work builds environments that invite reflection, empathy, and emotional proximity.
Her practice moves between film, installation, and research-led storytelling, exploring how immersive experiences can deepen the way we encounter and understand one another.
Selected CV
Selected Exhibitions & Screenings
- 202636 Hours — British Film Institute, London, July 2026
- 202636 Hours — As We All Lay Dying, Hoxton Hall, London, September 2026
- 202636 Hours — private organisational screening, Carers UK, August 2026
- 202636 Hours — live performance, Royal College of Art Graduate Show, London, July 2026
- 2026Future Garden Guardians: Horniman 2151 — Horniman Museum & Gardens, London
- 2026Out of Sync — In Other Worlds: Beyond Measure, Orleans House Gallery, London
- 2026Out of Sync — Television Centre Screening, London UK
Selected Collaborations & Programmes
- 2026Film Editor — Before the Breath Arrive by Kimia Ghofrani, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, September 2026
- 2026BELONG — LOTI × NHS Health Hackathon, London
- 2026InnovationRCA — development of an AI-supported family care coordination concept
- 2026–presentKenar — ongoing collaboration developing digital tools for coordinating family care
- 2026Decolonizing Practice: Epistemic Disobedience — co-organiser, Royal College of Art
Recognition
- 2024SBID International Design Awards — Finalist, Public Space – Americas, EmpowerKids, Texas
Professional Practice
- 2024–presentFrame & Flow — Founder / Creative Designer
- 2019–2024MK Kids Interiors — Interior Designer London
Education
- 2025–2026MA Information Experience Design, Royal College of Art, LondonIndependent Research Project: Who Cares About Care?
- BA Architecture
Selected collaborations & institutions
