Mona Hatoum

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MONA HATOUM: SHIFT
Text by Patricia Falguières.
HOLZWARTH PUBLICATIONS
ISBN: 9783935567626 | US $50.00
Pub Date: 8/31/2013
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MONA HATOUM
HATJE CANTZ
ISBN: 9783775731539 | US $55.00
Pub Date: 3/31/2012
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MONA HATOUM: INTERIOR LANDSCAPE
Edited by Chiara Bertola. Text by Réda Bensmaïa, Chiara Bertola.
CHARTA
ISBN: 9788881587353 | US $39.95
Pub Date: 10/31/2009
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MONA HATOUM: UNHOMELY
Text by Kirsty Bell.
HOLZWARTH PUBLICATIONS
ISBN: 9783935567466 | US $50.00
Pub Date: 3/1/2009
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MONA HATOUM
Essays by Christoph Heinrich, Volker Adolphs, Richard Julin, Ursula Panhans-Bler, and Nina Zimmer.
HATJE CANTZ PUBLISHERS
ISBN: 9783775714440 | US $35.00
Pub Date: 7/2/2004
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MONA HATOUM
Artwork by Mona Hatoum. Text by Giorgio Verzotti.
CHARTA
ISBN: 9788881582280 | US $19.95
Pub Date: 8/2/1999
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Mona Hatoum

Mona Hatoum: Shift

Text by Patricia Falguières.
Published by Holzwarth Publications

Published for a show at Galerie Max Hetzler, Shift concentrates on recent politically charged work by Palestinian artist Mona Hatoum (born 1952), sculptures of black steel cages holding biomorphic glass forms, iron barricades riddled with bullet holes and a curtain made from barbed wire.

Mona Hatoum

Edited by Ingvild Goetz, Rainald Schumacher, Larissa Michelberger. Text by Ingvild Goetz, Leo Lencsés, Rainald Schumacher.
Published by Hatje Cantz

Mona Hatoum (born 1952) has established herself as a truly transnational artist: born in Beirut, and working in Berlin and London, her multimedia work explores the dangers inherent to the borderlines between nation and body. This multi-authored and richly illustrated publication reveals all of the different facets of the artist’s career, from her overtly political performances of the 1980s to her later installations, photographs, sculptures and videos that examine the human body as a metaphor for oppression in a broader sense. Hatoum’s unusual blend of Surrealism and Minimalism both seduces and repels: her endoscopic videos of her organs, blood-red lights, the crackling electricity of wired furniture and glowing globes, a variety of cages and the murderous possibilities of kitchen utensils present us with an alienating intimacy that questions our relationship to our bodies and to the world.

Mona Hatoum: Interior Landscape

Edited by Chiara Bertola. Text by Réda Bensmaïa, Chiara Bertola.
Published by Charta

Beirut-born artist Mona Hatoum has been known, since the early 1990s, for large-scale poetic and politically-minded installations in which she transforms domestic objects such as chairs, cots and kitchen utensils into implements that connote torture or incarceration. This volume documents Hatoum's works shown at the historic Fondazione Querini Stampalia Museum. Included here are photos of the museum, of the cities where her meetings with biennial curators took place (Venice, Berlin, New York, London and Amman) and images from Lebanon of historical documents used in the project. In addition to this new commission, the book illustrates other recent works, in a diverse range of media, including installation, sculpture, video, photography and works on paper that demonstrate Hatoum's nimble fusion of Minimalism's pared-down aesthetics and the absurdist spirit of Surrealism.

Mona Hatoum: Unhomely

Text by Kirsty Bell.
Published by Holzwarth Publications

The works of Beirut-born artist Mona Hatoum, who currently lives in London and Berlin, incorporate very real topics. Many of her sculptures deal with conditions in the world's crisis regions, or exile; others show that familiar objects from everyday life can become very alien things. Hatoum's works appeal to the body as a common site of experience of scale, material, place and pain. “So while they may be read specifically in terms of her own personal history and the extreme experience of alienation and instability that is the fate of the exile, they also refer to the themes of memory, home, movement, location and space that are part of everyone's physical existence," as Kirsty Bell writes in her essay. Regardless of whether Hatoum works with barbed wire or sandbags, or magnifies kitchen graters into human-scale sculptures, she always succeeds in turning a familiar object into something else, something eerie, something unhomely.

Mona Hatoum

Essays by Christoph Heinrich, Volker Adolphs, Richard Julin, Ursula Panhans-Bler, and Nina Zimmer.
Published by Hatje Cantz Publishers

Each of Mona Hatoum's works can be read as a formula for human existence, expressed in a penetrating visual language that is both complex and puzzling. As the artist herself points out, “One's first experience of a work of art is physical. I appreciate works that have sensual as well as intellectual impact. Meanings, connotations, and associations begin to emerge only after the initial physical experience, when the imagination, the intellect, and the psyche are ignited by what one has seen.” The daughter of Palestinian parents, Hatoum has long been regarded in Great Britain and the U.S. as one of the most important artists of her generation. Born in Lebanon in 1952 and a resident of London since 1975, her sensitivity to themes of power and identity has been heightened by a life lived outside her homeland. Many of her objects, video pieces and installations deal with aspects of institutionalized violence and the vulnerability of the individual; her central point of reference is the body, in many cases her own. This is the first book to document the full breadth of Mona Hatoum's oeuvre, up to and including her most recent projects.

Mona Hatoum

Artwork by Mona Hatoum. Text by Giorgio Verzotti.
Published by Charta