{"product_id":"mona-hatoum-twelve-windows-alexander-and-bonin-new-york-2014","title":"MONA HATOUM — Twelve Windows, Alexander and Bonin, New York, 2014","description":"\u003cp\u003eIssued for Mona Hatoum's exhibition \u003cem\u003eTwelve Windows\u003c\/em\u003e, Alexander and Bonin, 132 Tenth Avenue, New York, 13 September–18 October 2014, opening Saturday 13 September, 18:00–20:00. Original exhibition invitation card, 22 × 14.5 cm; colour photographic reproduction to recto, typography to verso.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe embroidery came first. Hatoum introduced the distance. \u003cem\u003eTwelve Windows\u003c\/em\u003e was developed with Inaash, whose embroiderers produced twelve panels drawing on regional Palestinian embroidery traditions. Each panel carries the visual language of a different place. Hatoum does not bring them together into a seamless map. She suspends them apart. Wooden clothes pegs hold the embroideries within a loose architecture of steel cable. Textile, inheritance and domestic labour meet an industrial structure that connects the panels while keeping the spaces between them visible. Pattern becomes place. Distance becomes part of the work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe invitation repeats that logic in miniature. One embroidered panel sits almost alone against a white gallery wall while taut cables cut diagonally across the photograph and continue beyond the frame. The other eleven are missing. The system is not. The image gives us a fragment and insists on everything outside it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTurn the card over and the work disappears completely: Mona Hatoum. \u003cem\u003eTwelve Windows\u003c\/em\u003e. Dates. Opening. Alexander and Bonin. Image on one side. Administrative record on the other.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe timing matters. The following year, \u003cem\u003eTwelve Windows\u003c\/em\u003e entered Hatoum's major Centre Pompidou survey, moving from the New York gallery into a broader institutional history of her work. This card catches it just before that shift. Region → embroidery → installation → photograph → invitation. The support changes. The fragment keeps travelling.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCondition: very good; light handling and minor surface wear consistent with exhibition ephemera. Securely packed; tracked UK and international shipping available.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Alexander and Bonin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54259290046802,"sku":"HATOUM-ALEXANDERBONIN-INV-2014","price":95.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Hatoum_Mona.Showinvite_TwelveWindows_.2014.jpg?v=1786702883","url":"https:\/\/thenewrare.com\/products\/mona-hatoum-twelve-windows-alexander-and-bonin-new-york-2014","provider":"The New Rare","version":"1.0","type":"link"}