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Mona Hatoum (b. 1952) Back to Mona Hatoum in UbuWeb Film Measures of Disatnce (1988) This videotape is perhaps the most touching of Mona Hatoum's artistic statement 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. Measuring a multitude of distances/oppositions or differences between home and exile, writing and reading, reading and translating, mother and daughter, autobiography and artistic invention. RESOURCES: This UbuWeb resource is presented in partnership with GreyLodge UbuWeb Film | UbuWeb PennSound | GreyLodge | Artmob | EPC | WFMU