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Lot Essay
Another work from the edition is in the collection of Tate Gallery, London.
Shocking and brave on several levels, Untitled (wheelchair), speaks to the universal human condition, and is therefore able to transcend cultural boundaries. Reminding us of the unpleasant, unrelenting aspects of society, Untitled (wheelchair), is a sensory, physical experience of a unique artistic perspective of the world, one whose formal idiom combines Arabic and European systems of signs into aesthetic unity. Hatoum's work responds to themes of displacement and anxiety which take root from the artist's experience of living first in Lebanon and later in Britain. As Hatoum has said: 'I want the work in the first instance to have a strong formal presence, and through the physical experience to activate a psychological and emotional response'.
(M. Hatoum, quoted in Mona Hatoum, exh. cat., Sammlung Goetz, Munich 2011, back cover).
Shocking and brave on several levels, Untitled (wheelchair), speaks to the universal human condition, and is therefore able to transcend cultural boundaries. Reminding us of the unpleasant, unrelenting aspects of society, Untitled (wheelchair), is a sensory, physical experience of a unique artistic perspective of the world, one whose formal idiom combines Arabic and European systems of signs into aesthetic unity. Hatoum's work responds to themes of displacement and anxiety which take root from the artist's experience of living first in Lebanon and later in Britain. As Hatoum has said: 'I want the work in the first instance to have a strong formal presence, and through the physical experience to activate a psychological and emotional response'.
(M. Hatoum, quoted in Mona Hatoum, exh. cat., Sammlung Goetz, Munich 2011, back cover).