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MONA HATOUM . Corps Étranger . 1994
"(...)recent work includes the remarkable video installation Corps étranger (1994), produced with the assistance of a surgeon. The video maps an internal and external self-portrait of the artist through such complex medical procedures as endoscopy, colonoscopy, and echography. The video is projected on the floor within a circular booth and is accompanied by the sound of the artist's heartbeat. The equally dramatic installation Light Sentence (1992) is a dark, cell-like room enclosed on three sides with wire mesh. Hanging from the ceiling is a single light bulb, which is continually lowered and raised, creating disorienting shadows on the wall. The effect of the piece is alternately vertiginous, frightening, and eerily beautiful(...)"
Bio
Mona Hatoum was born in Beirut, Lebanon, in 1952. She has lived in England since the outbreak of civil war in Beirut in 1975. After graduating from the Slade School of Art in 1981, Hatoum embarked on a career as a performance artist. Since the mid-1980s, however, she has concentrated on the production of installations, videos, sculpture, and, most recently, photography.
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MONA HATOUM . Corps Étranger . 1994
"(...)recent work includes the remarkable video installation Corps étranger (1994), produced with the assistance of a surgeon. The video maps an internal and external self-portrait of the artist through such complex medical procedures as endoscopy, colonoscopy, and echography. The video is projected on the floor within a circular booth and is accompanied by the sound of the artist's heartbeat. The equally dramatic installation Light Sentence (1992) is a dark, cell-like room enclosed on three sides with wire mesh. Hanging from the ceiling is a single light bulb, which is continually lowered and raised, creating disorienting shadows on the wall. The effect of the piece is alternately vertiginous, frightening, and eerily beautiful(...)"
Bio
Mona Hatoum was born in Beirut, Lebanon, in 1952. She has lived in England since the outbreak of civil war in Beirut in 1975. After graduating from the Slade School of Art in 1981, Hatoum embarked on a career as a performance artist. Since the mid-1980s, however, she has concentrated on the production of installations, videos, sculpture, and, most recently, photography.
words from www.mcachicago.org
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