PEDRAM BALDARI ART WORKS
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  • Donkeyfull Mind
  • Love Note to Liberty
  • Radio Rhizome
  • Immigration Laws and How to Use Them
  • e pluribus unum and other mirror works
  • Bodies Left Behind
  • Of Re-Con-Figuration/Struction Of Pharmakon
  • Cultural Ex-haustion/Change
  • One of Many
  • Physical Study Of the Education Of Art#2
  • The Embodiment of a Chained Breath
  • The Case
  • Fatiha
  • Irrexxxsible
  • And Hereby Your Eyes are Opened
  • Sealed the Concealed Series
  • “Mutual Respect”
  • downloads
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  • Variations of Sounds, Traveling Between a Barrel and a Heart
  • Donkeyfull Mind
  • Love Note to Liberty
  • Radio Rhizome
  • Immigration Laws and How to Use Them
  • e pluribus unum and other mirror works
  • Bodies Left Behind
  • Of Re-Con-Figuration/Struction Of Pharmakon
  • Cultural Ex-haustion/Change
  • One of Many
  • Physical Study Of the Education Of Art#2
  • The Embodiment of a Chained Breath
  • The Case
  • Fatiha
  • Irrexxxsible
  • And Hereby Your Eyes are Opened
  • Sealed the Concealed Series
  • “Mutual Respect”
  • downloads
  • Contact
  PEDRAM BALDARI ART WORKS

Fatiha, Video-Performance, two channels, 00:02:06, 2012.

Fatiha is a video-performance project. In this project I take water from the river Darakeh in Tehran and the Thames in London, with which I wash the steps of the Iranian Embassy in London, and the UK Embassy in Tehran, respectively. Both diplomatic missions have been closed since early  2012 following the incident in which Basij militants attacked the U.K Embassy in Tehran, as it happened in 1979 with The U.S embassy and since then there is no relationship between Iran and The U.S. The Muslim notion of “Fatiha” (fatehe) stems from the Q’uran and refers to a ritual ablution of graves. Muslims pray it in all five prayers during a day. It also means “an ending.”  Fatiha was shown in the Export-Import video program at Documenta 13th in Kassel Germany 2012.