Mona Hatoum
Publisher: Phaidon Press Limited
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780714870441
Subjects: Art, modern, 20th century
Description: Born in Lebanon, Palestinian artist Mona Hatoum was exiled to London, where she has lived and worked since the mid-1970s. Through performance, video, sculpture, and installation, she creates architectonic spaces that relate to the body, language, and the condition of exile as well as transforming everyday, domestic objects into things foreign, threatening, and dangerous. Often exquisitely beautiful, Hatoum's works combine states of emotion and longing with the formal simplicity of Minimalism, creating powerful evocations of displacement, denial, and otherness.