Recollection

Mona Hatoum

1995

Installation, variable dimensions.
Materials: hair balls, strands of hair hung from ceiling, wooden loom with woven hair, table

Collection: De Vleeshal Collection, Middelburg (The Netherlands) (Inv. no. VH0204).

Recollection consists of a table-shaped loom used to weave human hair; strewn on the ground around it we come across hundreds of little brown balls made out of hair – the artist’s own – and an invisible ‘wall’ of hairs strung up, in a precise grid, from ceiling to floor. A chilling mixture of bodily intimacy and abject domesticity, the work exemplifies Hatoum’s interest in topics related to imprisonment, incarceration and enslavement.

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