Kunst op Zondag | Mona Hatoum
Mona Hatoum weet wat het is om op te groeien in “vluchtelingenopvang in de regio”.
Although I was born in Lebanon, my family is Palestinian. And like the majority of Palestinians who became exiles in Lebanon after 1948, they were never able to obtain Lebanese identity cards. It was one way of discouraging them from integrating into the Lebanese situation.(Bron: Tate Modern).
Wat sommigen zullen zien als toevallige samenloop van omstandigheden Ze is aan die toestand op ontsnapt en
When I went to London in 1975 for what was meant to be a brief visit, I got stranded there because the war broke out in Lebanon, and that created a kind of dislocation, [which] manifests itself in my work.
Laten we eens zien in hoeverre we dat statement nog in haar werk terug zien. Trefwoorden: conceptueel, minimalisme, surrealisme, politiek, humor. We voegen er hier en daar wat uitspraken van haarzelf aan toe.
Light Sentence, 1992.
You know, I’m always surprised when, years after I make a work, someone comes up and says, “Oh, this means this to me.” Just recently I was talking about Light Sentence in kind of negative terms… You know, it reminds you of the architecture of tower blocs in the suburbs of big cities, uniform and regimented architecture… But someone responded, “Oh, it’s funny because when I looked at the shadows, it gave me a lot of hope.” Wonderful! Absolutely amazing! (Bron: The Talks).