Mona Hatoum: Map

Mona Hatoum’s Map (1999) is a monumental world map consisting of 3,300 pounds of clear glass marbles. Born in Beirut in 1952 to a family of Palestinians living in exile, Hatoum left Lebanon for London in 1975, and became known in the early 1980s for a series of performance and video pieces that focused on the body. Acutely aware of issues of national borders, Hatoum has created a map that erases political boundaries at the same time it destabilizes the floor that viewers walk on, creating a double aspect of fragility and danger.

Map was purchased by MOCA in 2001 with funds provided by the Kwon Family Foundation in honor of Audrey M. Irmas.

Mona Hatoum
Map
Ort: California Plaza