莫娜•哈透姆(Mona Hatoum)
莫娜•哈透姆1952年出生于黎巴嫩的贝鲁特。1970-1972年,在贝鲁特大学学习;1975-1979年,在伦敦Byam Shaw艺术学院(中央圣马丁艺术学院前身)学习;1978-1981年,就读于伦敦大学史莱德艺术学院。1995年,哈透姆入围“透纳奖”候选人名单。2003-2004年间,参与了柏林德国学术交流中心国际艺术家项目。1975年黎巴嫩内战爆发后,哈透姆来到伦敦,开始在这里生活。
哈透姆的早期创作基于行为和录像。《隔离(Incommunicado)》(1993,泰特美术馆,T06988)是一件与观众的情感和感觉相违背的作品。在这个作品里,艺术家使用了一个通常会令我们联想起温馨、支持和保护的物体——婴儿床,但在其中加入了一些没有家庭温馨感的元素,即金属丝和软钢。这个作品也让我们想到了哈透姆一向探讨的主题:认同感、束缚和对立的事物。她颠覆了我们日常普通的物品的含义,而为之载入新的内容,因此哪怕是一张婴儿床,也暗含了恐惧和危险。
Mona Hatoum was born in 1952 in Beirut, Lebanon. She studied at Beirut University College, 1970-1972, the Byam Shaw School of Art, London, 1975-9, and the Slade School of Fine Art, London, 1979-81. Hatoum was short-listed for the Turner Prize in 1995, and undertook a DAAD International Artists Programme in Berlin, 2003-4. Hatoum came to London in 1975 and remained there after the outbreak of the civil war in Lebanon.
Hatoum’s practice was originally rooted in performance and video. Incommunicado (1993) engages with the viewer’s senses and emotions. Indeed, in this work she manipulates an object usually associated with warmth, support and protection, a child’s cot, by adding elements usually found on unhomely devices, in this case wire and steel bars. This work also brings to mind Hatoum’s explorations of the themes of identity, constraint, and opposites. She has subverted an everyday or innocuous object and instilled it with loaded meaning - a child’s cot made to appear threatening and dangerous. |