Home
by Mona Hatoum
Artist
Mona Hatoum
(Libanon, född 1952)
Alternate Title
- Hem
Date1999
MediumTable, steel kitchen utensils, electric wire, computer controlled electric voltage, light bulbs, audio, steel wire
DimensionsVarierande mått
ClassificationInstallations, Audio Art
Credit LineDonation 2000 from The Friends of Moderna Museet
Countries
Object NumberMOM/2000/13
CollectionsModerna Museets Vänner, Materialitet
The artwork is not on display
About the artworkThe installation Home consists of a simple, impersonal table with a few ordinary kitchen utensils connected by an electric cable whose current rises and falls rhytmically. The table is cordoned off with steel wire. These objects, which we handle daily - particulary perhaps women - are not just charged with symbolical feelings about everyday rituals but are also literally charged with electricity. What sort of place is this? It´s certainly not a kitchen, the heart of the home, but rather a torture chamber.
Mona Hatoum lives and works in London, but was born in 1952 in Lebanon. She has her artistic roots in the performance art of the early Eighties in which she used her own body in various contexts as a symbol of physical and mental pain. In the work of her more recent years the physical body is not so evident. But it is present through the human proportions of her work, and her objects often have direct contact with skin and body.
Selected exhibition history Moderna Museet c/o Jönköpings Länsmuseum (2010-2011) Jönköpings läns museum Samlingsutställning 2019-2022 (den 1 februari 2019 - den 27 augusti 2023) Moderna Museet, Stockholm
Mona Hatoum lives and works in London, but was born in 1952 in Lebanon. She has her artistic roots in the performance art of the early Eighties in which she used her own body in various contexts as a symbol of physical and mental pain. In the work of her more recent years the physical body is not so evident. But it is present through the human proportions of her work, and her objects often have direct contact with skin and body.
Selected exhibition history Moderna Museet c/o Jönköpings Länsmuseum (2010-2011) Jönköpings läns museum Samlingsutställning 2019-2022 (den 1 februari 2019 - den 27 augusti 2023) Moderna Museet, Stockholm