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Artist
Mona Hatoum
b. 1952, Beirut, Lebanon · Palestinian-British, born Lebanon · Based in London, United Kingdom & Berlin, Germany
- Slade School of Fine Art, London (1979–1981)
- Byam Shaw School of Art (1975–1979)
- Sculpture
- Electrified Wire
- Barbed Wire
- Installation
- Video
Mona Hatoum began with politically direct performance and video in the 1980s before developing installations and sculptures in which domestic objects, maps and bodily references become unstable or threatening. Exile and displacement form an important context, but her work rarely resolves into a single autobiographical reading.
Installation; sculpture; video; performance
Gallery Representation
Artist Films
Mona Hatoum – 'I Never Know What I Will End Up Making' | TateShots
Major Works
- 1988Measures of Distance
- 1992Light Sentence
- 1994Corps étranger
- 2000Homebound
- 2006Hot Spot
- 1999Map
- 2002Grater Divide
- 2009Impenetrable
- 1993–99Keffieh
- 1996Current Disturbance
Museums & Public Collections
Interviews & Writing
- Museum-quality video search →RESEARCH QUEUEvideo
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