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Bady Dalloul's A country without a door or windows, is a series of 200 miniature drawings displayed inside pocket matchboxes. The vividly coloured and seemingly childlike images sharply contrast with the harsh reality of the stories they depict of the Syrian war that erupted in 2011. By re-appropriating images from the media, Dalloul invokes a deeply personal and emotive connection to the conflict as his family hails from Syria. Although these images have left a lasting impression on the artist's psyche, the sequence of events is not arranged chronologically. Instead, Dalloul arranges …