Tate Modern (London) presents the first major survey of Mona Hatoum’s work in the UK, covering 35 years from her early radical performances and video pieces, to sculptures and large-scale installations.
Mona Hatoum creates a challenging vision of our world, exposing its contradictions and complexities. “Hot Spot” is a steel cage-like neon globe which buzzes with an intense, mesmerising yet seemingly dangerous energy. Elsewhere electricity crackles through household objects, making the familiar uncanny.
Born in Beirut to a Palestinian family, she settled in England in 1975. Through the juxtaposition of opposites such as beauty and horror, Hatoum engages us in conflicting emotions of desire and revulsion, fear and fascination.
The exhibition is organized by the Centre Pompidou, Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris, in collaboration with Tate Modern and Finnish National Gallery / the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki.
Mona Hatoum
04.05.2016 – 21.08.2016
Mona Hatoum, Hot Spot III, 2009. Courtesy of the artist and Fondazione Querini Onlus, Venice. Photo by Agostino Osio
Mona Hatoum, Performance Still, 1985, printed 1995. Courtesy of the artist
Mona Hatoum, Over my dead body, 1988-2002.Courtesy of the artist and White Cube
Mona Hatoum, Impenetrable, 2009. Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris. Photo by Florian Kleinefenn
Mona Hatoum, Measures of Distance, 1988. Courtesy of the artist
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