Negar Baghlani
June 7 to August 17, 2025
In And scene…, Iranian visual artist Negar Baghlani presents her Master of Fine Arts thesis exhibition as a bold, performative meditation on trauma, resilience, and transformation. Each piece is a fragment—part of a larger narrative that unfolds through symbolism and raw emotional power. The installation moves between personal memory and collective experience, inviting viewers to witness scenes of vulnerability, rupture, and renewal.
With And scene…, Baghlani does not offer resolution. Instead, she holds space for complexity—for the pain of remembering and the strength of continuing. Her work resists linear storytelling in favour of something more layered and intuitive: a rhythm of ruptures and repairs. By engaging with themes of survival and rebirth, Baghlani taps into a shared human experience. She asks: What does it mean to carry trauma? To witness it? And how might we begin again, not despite our wounds, but through them?
Baghlani’s multi-disciplinary practice combines performance, installation, and material experimentation. Drawing from her own lived experiences of immigration, displacement, and loss, she creates evocative, charged environments that blur the lines between artist and audience, presence and absence, grief and regeneration.
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Iranian visual artist Negar Baghlani discusses her MFA thesis exhibition And scene… a powerful, performative meditation on trauma, resilience, and transformation. Through personal reflection and artistic insight, Baghlani shares how her multidisciplinary practice explores memory, displacement, and the layered process of healing.
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