corps étranger, mona hatoum 1997
Tag: border disputes
Succour – Kira O’Reilly
“O’ Reilly applied a grid of masking tape onto her legs and torso, made a nick with a scalpel in each square, and then removed the tape to reveal her body patterned with small cuts. The literal wounding can read as a metaphor for tenderness and disclosure, and the skin as analogous to social guardedness, clothing and other modes of concealment.”
Maggie Nelson, The Argonauts
Harutyun Simonyan Uterus, 2002
The installation in the waiting room of Erlaufer Bahnhof is a kind of anti-monument that symbolizes the importance of the monument in relation to the collective and the individual symbolically with the terms “outside” and “inside”. In the video “Uterus”, the Armenian artist returned to a fetal state in an imaginary womb. At the same time, he transmitted the outside of the station to the interior of the waiting room via video camera.
Spent the day thinking about these two images (right: Judith Scott / left: Claude Cahun) and this Olivia Laing paragraph (The Lonely City)
Robert Hass
—from Marie Howe’s book Magdalene
Mona Hatoum, ‘Cellules’, 2012-2013, mild steel and blown glass in 8 parts, 170 cm x variable depth and width. © Photo: Florian Kleinefenn. © Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris.
Little Bristling Soul 