Artists of Current Exhibition
MONA HATOUM
Mona Hatoum (b. 1952, Beirut, Lebanon) is the child of a Palestinian family, born in Beirut, and has lived and worked in London since 1975. She attended Beirut University College, and then pursued her studies in Great Britain at the Byam Shaw School of Art from 1975 to 1979 and at the Slade School of Art, London, from 1979 to 1981
Projection reframes the world as unfamiliar and desolate. The dimensions and shapes of the continents on the surface are based on a Gall-Peters Projection, which attempts to present landmasses according to their relative proportional sizes, rather than those of the more familiar Mercator Projection, which alters the size and shape of continents and makes Northern-hemisphere territories appear larger than they are. The title of the work evokes questions and uncertainties regarding our future rather than providing answers.
Selected past exhibitions:
Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA (2024)
Musée d'Art moderne de Paris, France (2024)
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino, Italy (2023)
MoMA PS1, New York, NY, USA (2019)
Castello di Rivoli, Rivoli, Italy (2010)
Selected public collections:
HE Art Museum, Shunde, China.
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France.
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Danemark.
National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, Grèce.
Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich, Suisse.
Kunstmuseum, Basel, Suisse.
MoMA, New York, Etats-Unis.
Mathaf, Doha, Qatar.
Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, Emirats Arabes Unis.
Hiroshima Art Museum, Hiroshima, Japon.
Mona Hatoum
“Projection”
2006
Cotone e abaca
89 x 140 cm (unframed) / 101 x 151,5 cm (framed)
19/30 + 3AP
