CEMENT

In late 2017 I embarked on a body of work with two videos of a destroyed home in Aleppo at its heart. My aim is to translate the powerful ongoing exchanges I am fortunate to have with refugees in Berlin, to represent their lost homes and the lives they contained as something at once concrete and invisible. I made casts in cement, which contains echoes of the cinderblock that is often revealed after bombing, using a parallelogram for its sense of instability, an off-kilter version of traditional rectangular brick. 

Untitled
2017
cement casts, vintage photo pages
57 x 61 inches
Chevron
2017
gouache on vintage paper
44 x 55 inches
Chevron
2017
gouache on vintage paper
44 x 55 inches
Casts
2017
cement casts, stone floor
24 x 26.5 inches
Casts
2017
cement casts, stone floor
24 x 26.5 inches
Alexander Studio, MacDowell
2017
plaster-soaked canvas, nails
60 x 60 inches

cement casts on ledge each = 6.5 x 6.5 inches

cement and plaster chards

Alexander Studio, MacDowell
2017
Alexander Studio, MacDowell
2017
cement casts each = 6.5 x 6.5 inches