Gender and art

Mona Hatoum, Nature morte aux grenades, 2006-2007 (detail)

"Alongside the exhibition Love Letters in War and Peace the MSK presents an installation by Mona Hatoum. As much as the exhibition demonstrates the essence of art in messages of desire and affection between loved ones, Close Quarters (2014) addresses the complexity of relation. Hatoum’s installation includes earlier works, such as Incommunicado (1993), Quarters (1996), Grater Divide (2002), Nature Morte with Grenades (2006-7), and Daybed (2008). Mainly consisting of a large metal paravent and iron beds, sometimes shaped as household tools, such as a grader, the collection of works can be read as referring to the cycle of life, the bed being the space of intimacy, love, sleep, sexuality, birth, disease and death—of calm and peace but also of violence and war. Seen together, the works in Close Quarters allude to lives in a homely and safe environment as well as to lives spent in conflict zones, hospital and imprisonment, as can be sensed from the glass grenades strewn on the floor and the slowly, almost imperceptibly, turning barbed wire in 5RPM (2008) that closes off the entrance to the installation."

Mona Hatoum. Close Quarters

08.11.2014 - 22.02.2015

Museum of Fine Arts, Ghent, Belgium

A travers ses œuvres récentes, Mona Hatoum poursuit ses réflexions sur les thèmes de l'intime, du domestique, mais aussi sur l'expérience de l'exil et les zones de conflit, qui animent sa pratique depuis trente ans. Les œuvres composent un paysage très personnel, qui révèle l'étendue de son travail en terme d'échelles et de matériaux, depuis les grandes installations utilisant le verre et l'acier, jusqu'aux œuvres sur papier incluant ses propres cheveux."

Mona Hatoum, "Reflection"

Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris 3e, jusqu'au 18 janvier 2014

http://www.crousel.com/home/exhibition/365/

Alexander and Bonin begins the fall season with a one-person exhibition of recent work by Mona Hatoum.

On view in the front gallery is Twelve Windows (2012-13), an installation comprised of one- meter-square embroidered pieces of fabric, attached with wooden clothe pins at irregular intervals to a steel cable which traverses the room. These twelve embroidered panels are the work of Inaash; a Lebanese NGO founded in 1969 to provide employment for Palestinian women in refugee camps in Lebanon.

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In the second gallery, Hatoum exhibits Cells (2014), a steel and glass work whose form relates to earlier iconic installations such as Light Sentence (1992). A bank of 32 institutional lockers are populated by numerous hand-blown glass shapes, each suggestive of an organic bodily form.

Mona Hatoum - Twelve Windows

Sept 13 - Oct 18, 2014

Alexander and Bonin, New York

http://www.alexanderandbonin.com/