Mona Hatoum (Beirut * 1952)

DEEP THROAT, 1996, Video installation with table, chair, tablecloth, glass, plates, cutlery, monitor and DVD player, Installation: 85 x 89 x 130 cm, duration of the film: 5:15 min, loop (object) Tablecloth 2 84 x 82 cm (object) Tablecloth 1 152 x 152 cm (object)

Sam Taylor Wood 

Travesty of a Mockery,

1995

The righteous attempts of a couple to outline their respective positions in an argument are mirrored in the dual screens of this installation. The changing channels of a radio places each stage of the argument to a different soundtrack, highlighting one of the major ways that emotion is manipulated by filmmakers.

Boltanski’s L’Homme qui tousse (1969)

“With his work L’Homme qui tousse (1969), Christian Boltanski (born in 1944, lives and works in Malakoff) turns the viewer into a voyeur, making him witness to a gruesome scene. Produced with limited means, the film presents a modestly dressed man sitting on the floor of a dilapidated room, his body wracked continuously as he coughs up blood that flows over his chest and legs.”