Mona Hatoum
Mona Hatoum, born in 1952 in Beirut, Lebanon, lives and works in London. Hatoum's work is both poetic and political and encompasses a variety of media, including installations, sculptures, videos, photographs and works on paper. In the 1980s, Hatoum began her artistic practice with intensive video and performance works that placed a strong focus on the body. From the early 1990s, however, her work increasingly shifted to large-scale installations, which aim to create contradictory emotions such as desire and revulsion as well as fear and fascination in the viewer. In her sculptures, she transforms everyday, familiar objects such as chairs, children's beds and kitchen utensils into disturbing, sometimes dangerous-looking works that alienate the familiar and develop a threatening aura.
Mona Hatoum Editions
Static Portrait (Momo), Static Portrait (Mary Ellen), Static Portrait (Karl)
2000/2024
Puzzled
2009
Red Jesus (Venice)
2003/2005
Set in Stone
2002
Static Portrait (Momo), Static Portrait (Mary Ellen), Static Portrait (Karl)
2000/2024
From FACES
Three digital pigment prints on Hahnemühle 300g rag paper, hand-torn, each 60 x 50 cm. Edition of 45 + 8 AP, each signed on label verso and numbered on the print.
This series of photographs by Mona Hatoum was made with a large-scale Polaroid camera during a residency at MassArt in Boston. Out of the frame, each subject holds onto a Van de Graaff generator that creates a static current, causing his or her hair to stand on end.
Each EUR 1,500
Triptych EUR 4,200
Puzzled
2009
From Wall Works
Six puzzle elements (MDF hardboard sandwiched between aluminum plates; mirror-polished front), 85 x 60 x 2.5 cm (33 x 24 x 1 in) each, on a white, gray, or black wall, mounted as a unit or displayed randomly. Limited to 15 installations, with a signed and numbered certificate.
In Mona Hatoum's large-scale edition Puzzled, the gaps between the individual fragments come into focus – they point to what is missing, what cannot be fully grasped. Themes such as loss, uprooting and being in-between run through Hatoum's oeuvre and are closely linked to her personal experience of exile. Born in Beirut to Palestinian parents, the artist found herself forced into exile and cut off from her family in Beirut when civil war suddenly broke out while she was on a trip to London in 1975. The reflective surfaces of the puzzle pieces also involve the viewer by fragmenting their own reflections and raising questions about identity, wholeness and the perception of space.
Red Jesus (Venice)
2003/2005
Published for the 51st Venice Biennale
Photograph (C-print), 43.2 x 54 cm (17 x 21¼ in). Edition of 50, signed and numbered.
In Red Jesus (Venice), Hatoum explores the direct coexistence of opposing ideologies within a simple and seemingly idyllic everyday street scene in Venice. The Communist symbol of the hammer and sickle, an image of Jesus Christ, and even a sign for the left-wing democratic party coexist in a short stretch of space, while the men sitting below calmly drink beer. Through subtle shifts and visual accentuations, Hatoum questions the latent tensions in public space and reflects on the ambivalence between harmony and confrontation.
€ 1,000 € 600 / $720 shipping costs included
Set in Stone
2002
Published for Documenta 11
Carrara marble, carved typography, string, oak wood shelf, 20 x 65 x 14 cm (8 x 25½ x 5½ in). Edition of 30, signed and numbered.
In this edition, Palestinian-British artist Mona Hatoum visualizes the political and cultural divide between the western and eastern world, which appears to be “set in stone“. The carved typography reads East (الشرق) and West (الغرب) in Arabic. At the same time, the string connecting the two marble cups like a tin can telephone suggests a constant line of communication, connection and exchange.
EUR 5,500
