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Mona Hatoum (British of Palestinian origin, born in Beirut, Lebanon 1952)
1994-2004. Sand , steel, aluminum, and electric motor, 10 5/8" (27 cm) high x 13' 1 ½" (400.1 cm) diameter. Gift of Jerry Speyer and Committee on Painting and Sculpture Funds. © 2010 Mona Hatoum
971.2005
Out of Time: A Contemporary View
August 30, 2006–April 9, 2007
This work is a large-scale re-creation of the kinetic sculpture Self-Erasing Drawing Hatoum made in 1979. Replacing conventional artists’ tools (pencil and paper, paint and canvas) with a motorized, toothed metal arm and a circular bed of sand, Hatoum mechanizes the practices of mark-making and erasure. At a rate of five rotations per minute, the sculpture's hypnotic and continual grooving and smoothing of sand evokes polarities of building and destroying, existence and disappearance, displacement and migration.
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