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No. 7
‘T42 (gold)’
1999. Prototype. Gold trimmed fine stoneware in two parts. 5.5 x 24.5 x 14 cm. Edition of 35.
Current bid: £600
About Mona Hatoum
Mona Hatoum was born into a Palestinian family in Beirut in 1952 and since 1975 has lived and worked in London. She originally went to England on a visit and stayed on when the outbreak of the civil war in Lebanon prevented her returning.
After studying at the Byam Shaw and the Slade School of Art, Hatoum first became widely known in the mid 80s for a series of performance and video works that focused with great intensity on the body. Since the beginning of the '90s her work moved increasingly towards large-scale installation works that aim to engage the viewer in conflicting emotions of desire and revulsion, fear and fascination. Hatoum has developed a language in which familiar, domestic everyday objects like chairs, beds, cots and kitchen utensils are often transformed into foreign, threatening and dangerous objects. Even the human body is rendered unfamiliar in 'Corps étranger' (1994), a video installation that displays an endoscopic journey through the interior landscape of her own body.
Hatoum's work has been exhibited widely in solo exhibitions in Europe, the United States and Canada. Her exhibition 'The Entire World as a Foreign Land' was the inaugural exhibition for the launch of Tate Britain, London in 2000.
She has also participated in the 1995 Venice Biennale, the 1995 Istanbul Biennial, Documenta XI, 2002, the 2005 Venice Biennial and the Biennale of Sydney in 2006 and is currently participating in the3rd Auckland Triennial, Zealand and the Sharjah Biennial 8, United Arab Emirates.
In 2004 the largest and most comprehensive survey of her work, including new site-specific pieces, was initiated by the Hamburger Kunsthalle and travelled to Kunstmuseum Bonn, Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall and the Sydney Museum of Contemporary Art (2005).
Hatoum was Artist-in-Residence on the DAAD program (Berliner Künstlerprogramm, Deutscher Akademischer Austrauschdienst ) in 2003-2004 and has since divided her time between Berlin and London.
Hatoum is the 2004 winner of the prestigious Sonning Prize given biennially by the University of Copenhagen. She is also the 2004 winner of the Roswitha Haftmann prize from Zurich.
Selected Solo exhibitions (since 1994)
| 2006 | Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy Hot Spot, White Cube (Mason’s Yard), London |
| 2005 | OVER MY DEAD BODY, Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney, Australia |
| 2004 | A major survey, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg; Kunst Museum Bonn, Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall, Stockholm and Sydney Museum of Contemporary Art (2005) |
| 2003 | Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Oaxaca, Oaxaca and Ex-Convento de Conkal, Yukatan, Mexico |
| 2002 | Centro de Arte de Salamanca and Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain |
| 2001 | Domestic Disturbance, Mass MoCA, North Adams, Massachussets |
| 2000 | Le Collège, Frac Champagne-Ardenne, Reims, France and MUHKA - Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Antwerp The Entire World as a Foreign Land, Duveen Galleries, Tate Britain, London |
| 1999 | Castello di Rivoli, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Turin Le Creux de l’Enfer, Centre d'art contemporain, Thiers, France |
| 1998 | Museum of Modern Art, Oxford and the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh Kunsthalle Basel, Basel |
| 1997 | Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago and The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York. |
| 1994 | Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris |
