1982
$495
For 1982, her most personal artist book to date, Rhea wanted to create a wall of her own, using the brick to house her personal story of displacement from Lebanon that same year. In a series of 67 books, each individually placed in a cement brick slipcover, she combines archival family photos recovered from her childhood home, alongside recent images of walls from Beirut and New York, where she currently lives. Photographs are cut, sequenced and divided throughout the bricks. Images only exsist as partial slivers and become complete once the books are placed side by side and the photographs reconnected. The work is about diaspora and how one reckons with the complexity of a fragmented identity.
This title is held in the collections of :
-The Metropolitain Museum of Art, NY
-MoMA, NY
-Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University
-Yale University Library
-Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
PRODUCTION DETAILS
2.625 × 6.125 in
22 pages
Board-book binding
Red River 135gsm and Colorplan 540gsm
Archival pigment printed
Gaffer tape cover
Custom concrete brick and 3D printed slipcase
COLOPHON
Variable Edition of 67
Published by Small Editions
Book concept by Rhea Karam and Small Editions
Printed by Rhea Karam
Bound by hand by Small Editions
Graphic Design by Isobel Chiang