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Mona Hatoum

Mona Hatoum (Born 1952) is active/lives in United Kingdom, Lebanon.  Mona Hatoum is known for Performance art-body focus, assemblage.

Mona Hatoum's poetic and political oeuvre is realized in a diverse and often unconventional range of media, including installations, sculpture, video, photography and works on paper.

Hatoum started her career making visceral video and performance work in the 1980s that focused with great intensity on the body.  Since the beginning of the 1990s, her work moved increasingly towards large-scale installations that aim to engage the viewer in conflicting emotions of desire and revulsion, fear and fascination. In her singular sculptures, Hatoum has transformed familiar, every-day, domestic objects such as chairs, cots and kitchen utensils into things foreign, threatening and dangerous.

Even the human body is rendered strange in works such as 'Corps étranger' (1994) or 'Deep Throat' (1996), installations that use endoscopic journeys through the interior landscape of the artist's own body.  In Homebound (2000) and Sous Tension (1999) Hatoum   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 6724 characters.]  Artist bio

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