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Several works take the form of furniture - tables, a daybed and a carpet. Light Sentence, 1992 and Current Disturbance, 1996). Isolette references a trip to Cairo and works such as Incommunicado, an early crib sculpture. Here, scale changes the familiar into the disquieting. In Spring 2000 she will exhibit new work at the Tate Gallery, London. |
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The book has several well written texts, an interesting interview, and very good photos. Of course, the kind of work Hatoum makes does not lend itself easily to photography, and inevitably some of the impact is lost (but then again, this could be said for any book on art. Like her performance, her installation and sculpture are ugly and mute in a static and not-so-well-printed photografy book. Good is the intro, and the index of exibitions Was this review helpful to you. , each book must be in subject 1 AND subject 2 AND . |