Measures Of Distance, Mona Hatoum

Mona Hatoum is a celebrated London-based Palestinian performance and video artist born in Lebanon. This video from 1988 is perhaps the most touching of Mona Hatoum’s artistic statements, in which she examines her position as an exiled female artist. The author’s voice translates letters of her mother from Arab into English, represented visually as a texture of calligraphy over the texture of her body and skin.