莫娜•哈透姆(Mona Hatoum)
莫娜•哈透姆1952年出生於黎巴嫩的貝魯特。1970-1972年,在貝魯特大學學習;1975-1979年,在倫敦Byam Shaw藝術學院(中央聖馬丁藝術學院前身)學習;1978-1981年,就讀于倫敦大學史萊德藝術學院。1995年,哈透姆入圍“透納獎”候選人名單。2003-2004年間,參與了柏林德國學術交流中心國際藝術家項目。1975年黎巴嫩內戰爆發後,哈透姆來到倫敦,開始在這裡生活。
哈透姆的早期創作基於行為和錄影。《隔離(Incommunicado)》(1993,泰特美術館,T06988)是一件與觀眾的情感和感覺相違背的作品。在這個作品裏,藝術家使用了一個通常會令我們聯想起溫馨、支援和保護的物體——嬰兒床,但在其中加入了一些沒有家庭溫馨感的元素,即金屬絲和軟鋼。這個作品也讓我們想到了哈透姆一向探討的主題:認同感、束縛和對立的事物。她顛覆了我們日常普通的物品的含義,而為之載入新的內容,因此哪怕是一張嬰兒床,也暗含了恐懼和危險。
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. |