Exhibited as a 3-screen installation at Birmingham’s Ikon Gallery  and screened at Turner Contemporary 2021, –door open– (2019) was made over five years by two women artists, one Syrian living in Damascus, the other British living in SE England, during the Syrian Civil War. Living under the terror state of Bashir Assad, for the safety of the Syrian artist, both artists are anonymised as ZouZou Group.

This 25 minute film is followed by a discussion with artist Felicity Allen whose work regularly took her to Damascus before the Syrian Uprising of 2010.