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Mona Hatoum (Arabic: منى حاطوم; born 1952) is a British-Palestinian multimedia and installation artist who lives in London. [1]
Mona Hatoum was born in Beirut to Palestinian family in 1952. She lives in London. Hatoum challenges the movements of surrealism and minimalism, making work which explores the conflicts and contradictions of our world.
From ephemeral performances to hair drawings and kinetic installations, Hatoum perceives the body not merely as defined by its corporeal limits, but as existing within a social space and a cultural context, the complexities of which are manifested in the choice of materials and scale.
Summary of Mona Hatoum. Hatoum weaves together a minimalist vision with actual bodily material. As such, although her work often appears to be anonymous and well-contained upon first glance, after detailed inspection we realise that it is in fact resolutely individual and scattered in pieces.
Mona Hatoum’s poetic and political work incorporates installations, sculpture, video, photography and works on paper. Hatoum started her career in the 1980s making visceral video and performance work that focused intensely on the body.
Mona Hatoum is a contemporary Palestinian-British installation and video artist. View Mona Hatoum’s 265 artworks on artnet. Find an in-depth biography, exhibitions, original artworks for sale, the latest news, and sold auction prices.
Artist biography. Hatoum was born in Beirut, to a Palestinian family. She attended Beirut University College from 1970 to 1972. She came to Britain as a student in the mid-1970s, settling in London in 1975 when civil war in the Lebanon made her return home impossible.
