Mona Hatoum
Untitled (meat grinder)
Lot closes
June 7, 03:21:30 AM GMT
Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 USD
Starting Bid
15,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Mona Hatoum
b. 1952
Untitled (meat grinder)
Executed in 2006.
Bronze
Edition 11 of 12 + APs
3 x 7 1/2 x 9 7/16 in. (7.6 × 19.1 × 24 cm)
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Courtesy of White Cube and Mona Hatoum
Early in her career, Mona Hatoum (b. 1952, Beirut, Lebanon; lives in London, United Kingdom) created performance works that took the body as both subject and material. Since the early 1990s, however, she has worked primarily in sculpture and large-scale installation, often using common household objects to transform the familiar into works that seem foreign, fascinating, or threatening. The theme of dangerous domesticity runs throughout Hatoum’s work, in this case taking the form of a meat grinder rendered in bronze. In 1997, the MCA presented a solo exhibition of her work that traveled to the New Museum, New York, and her work is held in the MCA Collection. Additional museums hosting her solo exhibitions include Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin; Menil Collection, Houston, and Pulitzer Arts Foundation, St. Louis; Centre Pompidou, Paris; and Tate Modern, London. Hatoum was awarded the Praemium Imperiale for sculpture by the Japan Art Association in 2019.