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Mona Hatoum (منى حاطوم) is a Palestinian artist born in 1952 to a Palestinian family living in exile in Beirut, Lebanon. From 1970 to 1972, she studied graphic design at the Beirut College for Women. She traveled to London, England in 1975 and was inexpectedly forced to stay long than planned due to the Lebanese Civil War. She attended the Byam Shaw School of Art, London, followed by the Slade School of Fine Art, London. She explores the relationship between politics and the individual through her art installations and sculptures.
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01 January 1985
Documentation of an hour-long performance in which the artist walks barefoot through the streets of Brixton, South London, with Dr.
01 January 1988
The tapes shows a blackhooded face - interspersed with slide projections of torture and brutality - scratching at her eyes with a sharp knife as we hear snips of news accounts of the eradication of the Palestinian people.
01 January 1983
The video So Much I Want to Say consists of a series of still images, changing every eight seconds, which show the artist's face in close-up with a pair of male hands gagging her mouth and preventing her from speaking.
01 January 1984
This 40-minute filmed performance was presented for the first time in 1984 at the New York art centre ABC No Rio.
01 January 1986
Four Black and Third World women artists, among them African American feminist poet Audre Lorde and Palestinian performance artist Mona Hatoum, speak forcefully through their art and writing.
01 January 2011
Seen through the work of eight leading artists from the Middle East, Axis of Light is a poignant and absorbing observation of the influences of conflict.
01 January 1994
This complex piece is composed of a cylindrical space with padded walls where the viewer is invited to enter and see a video of Hatoum’s internal body.
01 January 1984
It operates through the juxtaposition of two strands of ambiguously contrasting image and sound. She has said: 'I want to remind the audience that there are different realities that people have to live through … Changing Parts … is about such different realities - the big contrast between a priviledged space, like the West, and the Third World where there's death, destruction, hunger.
01 January 1988
In this video, the artist tries to overcome the effects of distance, and reflects on geography represented in exile due to war, and on the psychological distance represented in each one’s approach to her womanhood.
01 January 2005
In this interview, illustrated with these works and with other key installations including Socle du Monde and Corps étranger, Mona Hatoum explores the diverse sources of her work and her engagement with a wide range of often surprising materials.
05 December 1983
The room is dark, lit only by a light bulb over a table on which the artist lies motionless. Empty chairs surround the table.
