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Pedram Baldari: "Fragmented-Recaptured" at Urban Arts Space

June 27, 2025

Work by Stamps Assistant Professor Pedram Baldari is featured in Fragmented-Recaptured, a group exhibition on view at The Ohio State University’s Urban Art Space in Columbus, OH from July 22-August 16.

Fragmented-Recaptured is a coalescing dialogue between a group of artists — Xeće Khadija Baker, Pedram Baldari, Nuveen Barwari, Huner Emin, Yoosef Mohamadi, Sener Ozmen, and Sahar Tarighi — residing in North America, whose diasporic experiences are tethered by a common yet fragmented identity as Kurds. 

Xeće Khadija Baker: When Spirits Awaken
Xeće Khadija Baker: When Spirits Awaken
Performative video installation
Image credit: Gallery 101; All rights reserved by the artist.
Pedram Baldari: Fractionated Lines of a Continuum (The Bride)
Pedram Baldari: Fractionated Lines of a Continuum (The Bride)

The works on display interrogate histories and modalities of marginalization and the systemic minoritization of the Kurds, the largest stateless nation within the socio-political borders of the states (Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey) that rule over a part of their homeland Kurdistan.

Here’s a tribute to all the Kurdish women like Jina, whose names often fade into obscurity.
Nuveen Barwari: Here’s a tribute to all the Kurdish women like Jina, whose names often fade into obscurity. 
Wall collage: Found fabric, digital print on canvas, oil paint, 2023
Huner Emin: Manufactured Democracy (detail)
Huner Emin: Manufactured Democracy (detail)
Installation materials: Ink, paper, acrylic Plexiglas, LED light, and wood. 40 boxes 22”x22”

Co-curated by Baldari and fellow participating artist Sahar Tarighi, Fragmented-Recaptured navigates shared narratives of displacement, conflict, and resistance, offering a deeply personal yet collective lens on the Kurdish experience recaptured through the new forms of diasporic conversation.

Fragmented-Recaptured poster image, showing a bird's wing over a red background.


Fragmented-Recaptured
Exhibition Dates: July 22 — August 16, 2025
Hours: Tuesday — Saturday: 11 a.m. – 6 p.m.; Thursday: 11 a.m. – 8 p.m.
Reception: Saturday, July 26, 6 – 8 p.m.

Participating Artists: Xeće Khadija Baker, Pedram Baldari, Nuveen Barwari, Huner Emin, Yoosef Mohamadi, Sener Ozmen, Sahar Tarighi

Urban Arts Space
50 W Town St, Suite 130, Columbus, OH 43215