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Mona Hatoum
Mona Hatoum’s poetic and political oeuvre is realised in a diverse and often unconventional range of media, including installations, sculpture, video, photography and works on paper.
Hatoum started her career making visceral performance art in the 1980s that focused with great intensity on the body. Since the beginning of the 1990s, however, her work moved increasingly towards large-scale installations that aimed to engage the viewer in conflicting emotions of desire and revulsion, fear and fascination. In her singular sculptures, Hatoum has transformed familiar, every-day, domestic objects such as chairs, cots and kitchen utensils into things foreign, threatening and dangerous. Even the human body is rendered strange in works such as 'Corps étranger' (1994) or ‘Deep Throat’ (1996), installations that use endoscopic journies through the interior landscape of the artist’s own body. In Homebound (2000) and Sous Tension (1999) Hatoum uses assemblages of household furniture wired up with an audibly active electric current – works that employ the stripped down language of minimalism combined with a surrealist sense of humour to create works that draw the viewer in on both an emotive and intellectual level. In smaller sculptures such as Traffic (2004) and Twins (2006) Hatoum uses found materials, rich with patina and laden with personal resonance, to create poetic, beguiling works on an intimate scale.
Mona Hatoum was born into a Palestinian family in Beirut, Lebanon in 1952 and now lives and works in London and Berlin. She has participated in numerous important group exhibitions including The Turner Prize (1995), Venice Biennale (1995 and 2005) and Biennale of Sydney (2006). Solo exhibitions include Centre Pompidou, Paris (1994), Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (1997), The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York (1998), Castello di Rivoli, Turin (1999), Tate Britain, London (2000), Hamburger Kunsthalle, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Magasin 3, Stockholm (2004) and Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney (2005).
More on Mona Hatoum
| Artworks | |
 | Cage-à-deux / Drowning Sorrows 4 Images |
 | Miscellaneous 4 Images |
 | Grater Divide 3 Images |
 | Miscellaneous II 4 Images |
 | Wheelchair / Webbed 4 Images |
 | 1 1 Image |
 | Related Texts |
| CV | |
| Bibliography | |
| Being Involved by Ursula Panhans-Bühler | |
| Mona Hatoum in conversation with Janine Antoni | |
| Exhibitions | |
| Hot Spot 24 Nov—22 Dec 2006 | |
| Grater Divide 24 May—22 Jun 2002 | |
| Socle du Monde 13 Jan—25 Feb 1995 | |
| Editions | |
| T42 1993-1998 | |
| Artist's Publications | |
| Mona Hatoum 2004 | |
| Mona Hatoum 2003 | |
| Mona Hatoum 2002 | |
| Mona Hatoum 2000 | |
| Mona Hatoum 1997 | |
| Artist's Publications Available in the Bookshop |
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| Mona Hatoum 2006 | |
 | Related Links |
| http://www.alexanderandboni... Alexander and Bonin, New York | |
| http://www.hamburger-kunsth... Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg | |
| http://www.mca.com.au/defau... Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney | |
| http://www.moma.org/exhibit... Museum of Modern Art, New York | |
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