Venue:
Fondazione Querini Stampalia
Santa Maria Formosa, Castello 5252
30122 Venice

Mona Hatoum. Interior Landscape
4 June - 20 September 2009
Press preview: 3 June 2009, 11 am - 2 pm

Mona Hatoum
* 1952 Beirut, Lebanon; Palestinian origin. Lives in London and Berlin.
more info & photos

Curator: Chiara Bertola

>> Photo documentation of the exhibition
including 28 images, Nafas Art Magazine

This exhibition includes over 25 works, many of which are new or previously unseen in Europe. ... New works in the exhibition include Interior Landscape, a haunting installation of bedroom furniture and domestic elements that imagines the conflict between the dreams and aspirations of a Palestinian individual juxtaposed with the harsh reality they have to face. Another large work created specifically for the space is a delicate and precariously suspended installation made of barbed wire. Hot Spot III is a metal globe with its continents outlined in glowing red neon shown in the proximity of what looks like an enlargement of a rosary or "worry beads" where the beads have been scaled up to the size of cannon balls. As well as these new works, Hatoum will be making a number of interventions in the museum collection using the furniture as the container or frame for some new ideas and some existing works which, when placed in this historic setting, generate different meanings.

(From a press release)

Organizer:
Fondazione Querini Stampalia

Main partner: Fondazione Furla
Institutional partner: Regione del Veneto
Special collaboration: Fondazione di Venezia

More information, contacts:
>> Press release

See also in Universes in Universe:

Mona Hatoum in Berlin
Two individual exhibitions: DAAD Gallery and Gallery Max Hetzler Temporary. Photos and information. Nafas Art Magazine, May 2008

Crossing Boundaries
About Hatoum's exhibition "Hot Spot", White Cube, London. By Olivia Hampton. Nafas Art Magazine, January 2007

Mona Hatoum
Artist's index - all the presentations of works by Mona Hatoum in Universes in Universe.

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