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Mona Hatoum

The Negotiating Table

  • War

A chilling response to the Lebanon War.

RELEASE

1983-01-01

BUGET

N/A

LENGTH

20 min

Description

The room is dark, lit only by a light bulb over a table on which the artist lies motionless. Empty chairs surround the table. Her body is bloodstained, covered with entrails, wrapped in plastic, and her head is firmly covered in surgical gauze. On the soundtrack news reports about civil war and speeches of Western leaders talking about peace can be heard.