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KAMERA SERIES | EXPERIMENTAL FILMS AND PRINTED MATTER

Dear friends, book and film lovers,

This season marks a transitional phase for KAMERA SERIES.
After four years of continuous activity devoted to moving images and artists’ books, AVARIE and Labor Neunzehn are presenting a single, self-produced edition. The lack of public funding for 2025 has required us to reconsider the scale of the programme, but not its vision. Instead of pausing, we have chosen to go ahead nonetheless, focusing our efforts on one concentrated event that preserves the spirit and intentions that have defined KAMERA since its inception.

We remain deeply convinced of the project's value, its relevance for our community, and the importance of offering a space where experimental forms can be shown, shared, and discussed.

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For this unique event in 2025, AVARIE and Labor Neunzehn are delighted to invite Christine Gedeon, a visual artist born in Aleppo and raised in the U.S., now working between New York and Berlin. Her practice moves between drawing, mapping, and experimental film, engaging with themes of memory, loss, and erasure, often through a process that intersects art, personal archives, and investigative research.

From Wednesday, 3 to Sunday, 7 December, Gedeon will present a selection of photographs, paintings, and works on paper and textile. She will also screen A Portrait of Michel, a video work tracing the disappearance of the artist’s uncle, abducted by the Hafez al-Assad regime in Damascus in 1978 and never seen again. Using the few belongings found in a pouch in Beirut — documents, objects, and scattered papers — along with family testimonies and material gathered in Toulouse, Gedeon reconstructs an elusive portrait that invites the viewer to piece together what might have happened. The narrative is punctuated by 8mm footage of family gatherings from 1946, evoking a moment of joy before later tragedies.

The opening night is enriched by a public conversation between the artist and Syrian novelist Nihad Sirees — an essential literary voice whose work spans political, historical, and social reflections on Syria, and who has lived in exile since 2012.


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KAMERA SERIES N° 11 | CHRISTINE GEDEON


Thursday, 4 – Sunday, 7 December, 2025 | 2-6 pm

Wednesday, 3 December, 2025, from 6 pm
Exhibition opening and launch of KAMERA CAHIER N° 11, from 6 pm
Film screening and artist talk: Christine Gedeon in conversation with Syrian novelist Nihad Sirees, 7:30 pm




LABOR NEUNZEHN
Kiefholzstr. 19/20
12435 Berlin
2nd backyard | 4th floor | room 11/12

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Christine Gedeon is a visual artist, born in Aleppo and raised in the U.S., who lives and works between Berlin and New York. Since the start of the war in Syria, her work has focused on her family history in Aleppo before the civil war, across various mediums: video, sound installation, and works on paper and canvas.

Gedeon’s work has been exhibited in galleries and institutions worldwide. She has received grants and fellowships from Stiftung Kunstfonds, the Berlin Cultural Senate, The Harpo Foundation, and the Bronx Museum in New York. Her work has been featured in Art in America, Hyperallergic, The Dallas Morning News, and in the book You Are Here: Mapping the Soul of the City by Katharine Harmon. Her artist book Aleppo: Deconstruction | Reconstruction was published by Kerber Verlag in 2020.

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Nihad Sirees, born in Aleppo in 1950, is a Syrian civil engineer and acclaimed novelist known for his narrative realism. The author of seven novels, as well as plays and television series, he explores political, historical, and social themes related to Syria. His novel The North Winds is considered one of the most important historical works in Syrian literature, while his novel The Silence and the Roar, banned in Syria, has been translated into several languages. Renowned also for the innovative TV series The Silk Market, he helped bring the environment and culture of Aleppo to the screen. Branded an opponent of the Syrian government, he left Syria in 2012 and now lives in Berlin.

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KAMERA is a series curated by

AVARIE | a Paris-Berlin based independent publisher, specializing in contemporary art books and exploring the relationship between texts and images, body and space.
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LABOR NEUNZEHN | an artist-run project engaged in a cross-disciplinary discourse on time-based-art that involves expanded cinema, modern music, publishing, and the critical reflection in media art.
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