Title: The Blues 27.05.24 (1)

Year: 2024

Media: Acrylic on paper

Size: 29.7 x 21 cm

About the work: The Blues 27.05.24 (3), 2024 is part of a series of acrylic works on paper which Mona Hatoum began making during the various pandemic lockdowns. The title refers both to the blue/black colour used and also to one’s state of mind. The grid, a device the artist has often returned to in her sculpture and installation work, in this case, takes on the character of a barred window or mashrabiya, the gridded carved wooden latticework screens characteristic of traditional architecture in the Middle East.

Bio: Mona Hatoum has worked in a diverse range of media, including performance, video, photography, sculpture, installation and works on paper. Her work deals with subjects that arise from our current global condition, systems of control and themes of conflict and displacement. Hatoum participated in the Venice Biennale (1995, 2005), documenta, Kassel (2002, 2017) and the Istanbul Biennial (1995, 2011). Solo exhibitions include a major survey that toured from Centre Pompidou (2015) to Tate Modern and KIASMA, Helsinki (2016). A large survey at the Menil Collection, Houston (2017) travelled to the Pulitzer Arts Foundation, St Louis (2018). In September 2022, Hatoum had three solo exhibitions that opened simultaneously in Berlin at Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.), Georg Kolbe Museum and KINDL – Centre for Contemporary Art.