Exhibition catalogue. Published in conjunction with the exhibition Mona Hatoum: Terra infirma. The Menil Collection, Houston, October 13, 2017-February 28, 2018. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Six key movements to unlock a possible history of materials / Adania Shibli. The devices of Mona Hatoum / Anna C. Chave -- Works -- Crossing over / Rebecca Solnit -- Six key movements to unlock a possible history of materials / Adania Shibli.
Summary:
The work of London-based artist Mona Hatoum (b. 1952) addresses the growing unease of an ever-expanding world that is as technologically networked as it is fractured by war and exile. Best known for sculptures that transform domestic objects such as kitchen utensils or cribs into things strange and threatening, Hatoum conducts multilayered investigations of the body, politics, and gender that express a powerful and pervasive sense of precariousness. Her works are never simple and often elicit conflicting emotions, such as fascination and fear, desire and revulsion. This copiously illustrated presentation of Hatoum's oeuvre offers critical and art historical essays by Michelle White and Anna C. Chave and imaginative texts by Rebecca Solnit and Adania Shibli, which contextualize the artist's work and its relationship to surrealism, minimalism, feminism, and politics.
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