#mona hatoum
Memorable Viewing from 2018
Lady Chatterley (Pascale Ferran, 2006)
The Other Side Of Hope (Aki Kaurismäki, 2017)
Measures of Distance (Mona Hatoum, 1988)
Wake in Fright (Ted Kotcheff, 1971)
Persona Problems (Bill Gunn, 1980)
The Great Silence (Sergio Corbucci, 1968)
The Ascent (Larisa Shepitko, 1977)
Oxhide (Jiayin Liu, 2005)
Private Property (Leslie Stevens, 1960)
Monrovia, Indiana (Frederick Wiseman, 2018)
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Mona Hatoum, Inside Out, 2019
“I dislike interviews. I’m often asked the same question: What in your work comes from your own culture? As if I have a recipe and I can actually isolate the Arab ingredient, the woman ingredient, the Palestinian ingredient. People often expect tidy definitions of otherness, as if identity is something fixed and easily definable.
“If you come from an embattled background there is often an expectation that your work should somehow articulate the struggle or represent the voice of the people. That’s a tall order really. I find myself often wanting to contradict those expectations.”
— Mona Hatoum, London-based, Lebanese-born, Palestinian artist in conversation with Janine Antoni for BOMB Magazine. Dense read, but so worth it. Highly recommended.
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