A pair of exhibitions opened at Urban Arts Space this week are divided by a border, of sorts, with “Fragmented-Recaptured” staged in the upper gallery space and “Cartography” stretched throughout the lower gallery. And yet, despite this divide, the two shows tread shared ground, exploring the concept of physical place and the sometimes-catastrophic impacts that geo-political lines can have on those people who dwell within a given land, be it Palestine. Kashmir, or Kurdistan.

In that way, even the setup of the dual spaces comes to mirror the ideas explored within, drawing out added complexity in a pair of staggering exhibits that touch on everything from genocide and authoritarian violence to the often-arbitrary borders drawn between countries that can split long-established communities of people and intensify these horrors.

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