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Indepth Arts News:
"THE RECENT WORKS OF MONA HATOUM"
2000-10-07 until 2001-01-14
SITE Santa Fe
Santa Fe, NM,
USA United States of America
For SITE Santa Fe, MONA HATOUM will be presenting a
collection of 12 14 of her newest sculptural works,
including several large-scale pieces, many of which
were recently exhibited in a one-person exhibition titled
The Entire World as a Foreign Land at the Tate Gallery
in London, England. A catalogue on MONA HATOUM'S
SITE Santa Fe exhibition will be available at the close of
the exhibition.
Mona Hatoum studied at Beirut University College from
1970 to 1972. She attended art school in London,
England graduating first from The Byam Shaw School of
Art in 1979, then The Slade School of Art in 1981.
Ms. Hatoum works in diverse methods and mediums,
encompassing installation, video, sculpture, and
performance art. Throughout her artistic career, she has
addressed themes relating to political conflicts, the
physical body, and feminist issues with a formal
language and minimalist aesthetic. A Palestinian born in
Lebanon, Hatoum went to London before the 1982
Israeli invasion, and was unable to return to Beirut. Many
of her artistic explorations are drawn from this
experience of exile and cultural displacement.
Since the mid-90s, Mona Hatoum has emerged as one
of the most significant figures in the International art
world. She has taken part in numerous group and
one-person exhibitions around the world. Ms. Hatoum
was short-listed for The Turner Prize in London and
participated in the Venice Bienniale and the Istanbul
Biennale in 1995. In 1998, she participated in the Cairo
Biennale, Cairo, Egypt and the XXIV Bienal de Sao Paulo,
Brazil. In 1999, she took part in SITE Santa Fe's Third
International Biennial: Looking for a Place in which she
exhibited the memorable work Map, 1998.
IMAGE:
Mona Hatoum
Chain (detail), 1999
leather gloves and nylon string
177 x 9 7/8 x 39 3/8 inches
Photo: Joel Damase
Installation at Le Creux de L'Enfer, Theirs
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