Mona Hatoum edited by Christine Van Assche with Clarrie Wallis is the first major survey of one of the world's most provocative and politically engaged artists. The book accompanies an exhibition at Centre Pompidou from June 24 to September 26, 2015.
Born in Beirut to a Palestinian family, artist Mona Hatoum came to Britain as a student in the mid-1970s, settling in London in 1975. Her art – whether video, performance, sculpture or installation – is concerned with confrontational themes including violence, oppression and voyeurism, often in reference to the human body; and with the juxtaposition of opposites such as beauty and horror, desire and revulsion.
Hatoum has participated in numerous important group exhibitions including The Turner Prize and the Venice Biennale. As the winner of the Joan Miró Prize, she held a solo exhibition at fundació Joan Miró in Barcelona in 2012, and the following year was the subject of a solo exhibition at the Kunstmuseum St Gallen. In 2014 a large survey show of her work was held at the Arab Museum of Modern Art in Qatar.
With eight new essays, including an introduction by curator Clarrie Wallis, and a re-published text by renowned Orientalist scholar Edward Said, a wide range of texts cover both the theory and practice of Hatoum’s work. Beautifully designed, with 250 colour images covering the whole of Hatoum’s oeuvre, this is the essential book on a distinctly powerful voice in contemporary art.
Authors: Christine Van Assche (ed.), textes de Guy Brett, Patricia Falguières, Edward W. Said, Bertrand Westphal, Clarrie Wallis, Christine Ross, Marja Sakari.
Published by Editions du Centre Pompidou
Softcover, 245 x 300 mm, 192 p., 250 color illustrations
French
About the editors:
Christine van Assche is Chief Curator and Curator of New Media at the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris.
Clarrie Wallis is Curator, Contemporary Art, at Tate.