RESEARCH - Exhibition of Mona Hatoum

I visited the The Fundació Joan Miró in Barcelona recently, and it was really fortunate to see the British artist Mona Hatoum's work. This was the first time I saw her works. and her installations attract me a lot. The exhibition looks like a dialogue with avant-garde movements in modern art.

The exhibition "Projection", curated by Martina Millà in close collaboration with Mona Hatoum, is the artist's first monographic exhibition in Barcelona. The show includes close to forty pieces from the last twenty years, with a stronger presence of recent work. Its aim is to open up our view of this artist and place her beyond the geopolitical references that have become practically synonymous with her production.

With this collection of installations, videos, sculptures, and photographs, "Projection" aims to subtly stretch the semantic field that we usually identify with Hatoum to open up new possibilities, glean new meanings and lead viewers towards a complex, renewed interpretation of her universe and her vast body of work. The exhibition attempts to show an artist who establishes a dialogue with movements in modern art such as surrealism, minimalism, arte povera, body art, land art, or site-specific art.

For me, it's important to see how she use the space to show her installations especially how to create the relationship with views. In particular, there is a nice using of graphic language in a 3D installation or project in her works, which is really important for my final project.