[Video Artist] Mona Hatoum

Mona Hatoum is a Palestinian artist who works unconventionally with diverse media, including installations, sculpture, video, photography and works on paper. Her work often appears poetic yet delivers strong political messages. 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.

 

Corps étranger (1994)
350 x 300 x 300 cm
Video installation with cylindrical wooden structure, 
video projector, video player, amplifier and 4 speakers

      Corps étranger (detail)Photo: Philippe Migeat     

  

“There is nothing seductive about seeing green slime flowing inside the intestinal tubes, so it is in parts quite disgusting and frightening. For me it was more about issues of surveillance and how we are watched and scrutinized constantly and how our boundaries are constantly invaded.” --Mona Hatoum