Christine Gedeon's Aleppo: Deconstruction | Reconstruction
is a series of fifteen works on paper, exploring places in pre-civil
war Syria, which belong to the artist's personal history. Ranging from
the quotidian to the tragic, these include such sites as her
grandfather's office, located closely to the Citadel, as well as the
famed Baron Hotel. Unaware of the present state of the city, Christine
Gedeon recreated a version Aleppo, accessible only by memory. Her new
book is moving evidence of art's curative capabilities, supplemented by
family photographs and an essay on Syria by Nasser Rabbat.