Produced by Rhea Kara x Small Editions, 2025
Book housed in custom concrete slipcase
Book details: board-book bound hardcover Red River 135 gsm and Colorplan 540 gsm, archival pigment printing, gaffer tape cover
20.3 x 27.3 cm | 8 x 10.75 in
Edition of 67
Can be purchased individually or in sets
Rhea Karam has been documenting walls for the past 20 years; she is drawn to the stories they hold, both public and intimate. For 1982, her most personal artist book to date, she 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 series and full images only become complete when several books are laid out and connected side by side.