This book documents the genesis and evolution of Interior Landscape, a project conceived for the contemporary spaces as well as interventions within the museum collection in the historic building of the Querini Stampalia family in Venice.

Hatoum's work addresses notions of displacement, uncertainty and conflit through the use of everyday objects transformed into foreign, uncanny sculptures. She creates a domestic territory that is no longer the reassuring space of protection by subverting familia forms that become ciphers of ambiguity and threat.

Authors: Chiara Bertola (ed.), Réda Bensmaïa
Published by Charta on the occasion of the solo exhibition Interior Landscape, at Palazzo Querini Stampalia, Venice, June 4 - September 20, 2009
Softcover, 17.1 x 24.8 cm, 168 p., 163 color and b&w illustrations
Bilingual: Italian / English