Hatoum Essay

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5 August 2009

Mona Hatoum

Mona Hatoum is considered to be one of the avant-garde artists of the modern art . She was able to showcase to the world her strong perceptions about humanity , vivid emotions brought by human relations and intense experiences throughout her lifetime that were all displayed in all of her artworks

During the onset of Hatoum 's career , it was through visceral performance art ' that she was able to acquire the attention and interest of some art enthusiasts . But in the 1990s

, she diverted her focus in generating large-scale installations that aimed to engage the viewer in conflicting emotions of desire and revulsion , fear and fascination ' Because of this , she gained a new following that made her more popular . Hatoum was able to make ordinary objects such as a chair to look like foreign , threatening and dangerous ' objects (Whitecube .com . One of her installation works that garnered the public 's curiosity was Corps ytranger which critically comments on particular aspects of contemporary visual culture , such as the colonization of the body 's interior by medical image technologies This unusual work of art is relatively small , oval-shaped space with two entrances ' On the ground level of the installation is bright circular shape which has video images which show the human skin as well as the inner parts of the body . Inside the tight installation , viewers can hear breathing sounds and beating of the heart (Van de Vall Looking at this may seem pointless and repulsive...