In the exhibition Mona Hatoum—Revisit, the theme of ‘re-visiting’ occurs both in the exhibition’s actual format, but also in the works themselves, and in Hatoum’s tendency to revisit the same themes and concepts, with a wide variety of processes and materials. For the exhibition, Hatoum is creating a new work entitled Electrified (variable IV) (2022). The new work reconnects with the theme and materials of her earlier work Undercurrent, which Hatoum created especially for her solo exhibition at Magasin III in 2004. Both works draw on the experiments with kitchen utensils and electricity that Hatoum made in her early student years in the late 1970s. The presentation also includes a number of other works by Hatoum, some of which are drawn from the Magasin III collection while others have been loaned by the artist. In the first part of the exhibition, the extensive archival work Performance Documents, 1980–1987/2013, is also featured. This introduces Hatoum’s early performative practice and demonstrates how it relates to her later sculpture and installation. The exhibition aims to provide insight into a practice in which early and recent work, engage with and respond to each other.
Mona Hatoum was born in 1952 to a Palestinian family in Beirut, Lebanon. While she was on a short visit to London in 1975, the Lebanese civil war broke out and prevented her from returning home. She has lived in London ever since.
