Mona Hatoum, Over My Dead Body, 1988

Mona Hatoum
Over My Dead Body, 1988

Metro Billboard Project.
25.05.1988 - 05.09.1988

A series of commissioned poster works for advertising hoardings on the Tyne & Wear Metro and in Manchester, Sheffield, Leeds, Derry, London, Glasgow and Middlesbrough.

In Over My Dead Body, a giant photographic poster contributing to an urban billboard project, the artist 'stares down' the forces of the state in the form of a toy soldier, and directly implicates the body in defiance.

Related Information

Artist:
Mona Hatoum
Project Title:
Over My Dead Body
Year:
1988
Organisation:
Projects UK