Mona Hatoum • Archive special As an optional add on

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and for connection

Nadia Kaabi-Linke

A conversation under the mango trees

examining its visual and tactile elements―from materials to layout to binding to typography

Mona Hatoum • Archive special As an optional add onBorn in Lebanon, Palestinian artist Mona Hatoum was exiled to London, where she has lived and worked since the mid 1970s. Through performance, video, sculpture, and installation, she creates architectonic spaces that relate to the body, language, and the condition of exile as well as transforming everyday, domestic objects into things foreign, threatening, and dangerous. Often exquisitely beautiful, Hatoum's works combine states of emotion and longing