Artists research
Mona Hatoum is Lebanese artist. she was born in Beirut in 1952, she came to London in 1975 for a short visit but decided to stay because of the war (Brett,1997,p4). i inspired by her art work . The way she used her images, colours and objects. Hatoum uses place as metaphor when she discusses about displacement. i her work defiance can not separated from vulnerability, order from chaos, beauty from revulsion, the brain from body, her work has two dimensions, emotional loss, and political loss because of exile (Brett,1997,p 34). One of art work which relevant to my work is measures of distance 1988 . measures of distance is a video work comprising several layered elements. Letter written by Hatoum’s mother in Beirut to her daughter in London which appears as arabic text moving over the screen and are read a loud in English by Hatoum. In the background images are slides of Hatoum’s mother in the shower.
Www. Tate .org.uk. Measures of distance,Mona Hatoum, 1988.
A measure of distance is presented in away which shows Hatoum is connecting past with the present like a vivid memory.
Hatoum says about her video
” this fascination with the body, partly comes from the contrast between Britishness and less self-conscious attitude to physicality that she was used to while growing up. “The British have this physical reserve. Arab culture is very different.” And that, she adds,is why the Arab world has no many rules and restrictions about the body. ” otherwise people would go crazy! ” ( Laura Barnett,2012).
