Mona Hatoum. Interior Landscape
4 June - 20 September 2009
Mona Hatoum
* 1952 Beirut, Lebanon; Palestinian origin. Lives in London and Berlin.
Curator: Chiara Bertola
Photo documentation of the exhibition
including 28 images, Nafas Art Magazine
This exhibition includes over 25 works, many of which are new or previously unseen in Europe. ... New works in the exhibition include Interior Landscape, a haunting installation of bedroom furniture and domestic elements that imagines the conflict between the dreams and aspirations of a Palestinian individual juxtaposed with the harsh reality they have to face. Another large work created specifically for the space is a delicate and precariously suspended installation made of barbed wire. Hot Spot III is a metal globe with its continents outlined in glowing red neon shown in the proximity of what looks like an enlargement of a rosary or "worry beads" where the beads have been scaled up to the size of cannon balls. As well as these new works, Hatoum will be making a number of interventions in the museum collection using the furniture as the container or frame for some new ideas and some existing works which, when placed in this historic setting, generate different meanings.
(From a press release)
Organizer:
Fondazione Querini Stampalia
Main partner: Fondazione Furla
Institutional partner: Regione del Veneto
Special collaboration: Fondazione di Venezia
See also:
Mona Hatoum in UiU
Articles about the artist, informative photo tours through some exhibitions, and her works in different areas of Universes in Universe - Worlds of Art.
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