Mona Hatoum
Over my dead body

2005

EB66

Photogravure, 70 x 100 cm

Edition of 100, signed and numbered
Edition A: 55 copies (numbered 1/55 - 55/55, all in portfolios)
Edition B: 35 copies (numbered I/XXXV - XXXV/XXXV)
10 artists proofs (numberd AP 1/10 - AP 10/10)

3.400 Euro

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part of portfolio Love It or Leave It more editions by Mona Hatoum
Print of Mona Hatoum. A black and white portrait of Mona Hatoum's head. On her nose is a small toy soldier with a rifle in his hands, which he is pointing at her. On the left-hand side of the image, OVER MY DEAD BODY is written in bold black

    The motif, which Mona Hatoum executed in different variations between 1988 and 2002 – here as a photogravure – shows a black and white photograph of the artist in profile. She looks defiantly at a toy soldier who, balancing on the bridge of her nose, has a rifle pointed at her forehead. “Over my dead body” – the sentence printed next to her face speaks for itself and expresses defiant resistance: The miniature soldier itself could become a weapon as a “rhinoceros”. Forced displacement and uprooting is a central theme in the artist’s work, which she explores both against the background of her own biography and with regard to current social developments.
    Text: Eva Scharrer