Mona Hatoum

London

Palestinian artist Mona Hatoum is celebrated through an extended retrospective at the Tate Modern in London. The exhibition draws upon Hatoum’s corpus of contradictions and complexities.

She began her work with Measures of Distance, a video combining letters from her mom living in Beirut while Lebanon was in middle of conflicts with intimate pictures of her mother showering. This highly narrative piece gave the tone for Hatoum’s entire body of work. Since the 1990s, the artist made a shift in her work from making statements to asking questions; a change that is visible through the exhibition. From Over My Dead Body to Hot Spot III, the shift is visible. While in From Over My Dead Body – a billboard criticizing woman and war conditions- Hot Spot III refers to today’s complex earth’s relation through its neon globe with electricity crackles. Hatoum’s works bridges the politics with the personal, beauty with horrors and fear with fascination.

Mona Hatoum, Over my dead body, 1988-2002. Courtesy White Cube​

Mona Hatoum, Hot Spot III, 2009.

Tate Gallery

May 4 – August 21, 2016

Bankside
London SE1 9TG
United Kingdom

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