Mona Hatoum’s work draws upon themes interwoven in everyday life and the larger situation of our inherently unstable world. She creates a sense of profound unease through a process of visual and material seduction that transforms seemingly everyday objects into potent cyphers, charged with emotive and thematic force. In this talk, Mona Hatoum is joined by leading figures from Tai Kwun and M+ to provide a visual narration of her work over the years. ‘Remains of the Day’, her first solo show in Hong Kong, opens at White Cube on 7 September 2018, featuring large-scale installation, sculpture and works on paper.
Mona Hatoum’s poetic and political oeuvre is realised in a diverse and often unconventional range of media, including installation, sculpture, video, photography and works on paper. Hatoum was born into a Palestinian family in Beirut, Lebanon in 1952 and has lived in London since 1975. A major survey of her work was organised by the Centre Pompidou, Paris (2015) and toured to Tate Modern, London and KIASMA, Helsinki (2016-2017). She was awarded the 10th Hiroshima Art Prize and exhibited her work at Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art (2017). A large survey of her work was organised by the The Menil Collection, Houston in 2017 and toured to the Pulitzer Arts Foundation, St Louis, in April 2018. Hatoum has been nominated for The Hepworth Sculpture Prize and will participate in an exhibition at The Hepworth Wakefield in October 2018.
Suhanya Raffel - Ex-officio Member of M+ Board
Raffel was appointed Executive Director of M+ in November 2016. Previously, she was Deputy Director of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney. Before that she worked at the Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, where she held many senior curatorial positions, including Acting Director and Deputy Director of Curatorial. At the Queensland Art Gallery she was instrumental in building its contemporary Asia Pacific collection and led its Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (2002-2012). Raffel is currently an advisor for the Yokohama Triennial 2017 in Japan, a trustee of the Geoffrey Bawa Trust and the Lunuganga Trust in Sri Lanka, and a member of the Board of the International Committee for Museums and Collections of Modern Art (CIMAM).
Seats are available on a first-come, first-served basis. Please RSVP by clicking the “Book Now” button on the Tai Kwun website or via the Tai Kwun App. Lectures will be conducted in English with Cantonese interpretation available.
Art After Hours is an event series presented by Tai Kwun Contemporary that will talk with you, sing with you, and strive to always show you something new. Usually taking place every Friday at 7pm, Art After Hours welcomes all visitors to experience contemporary art in Hong Kong live. Artists, writers, public intellectuals and curators are invited to engage in talks, performances and screenings.
