For her forthcoming solo show at MW projects the artist Marine Hugonnier will present a series of new works. The film Death of an Icon was filmed two days before the death of Yasser Arafat was officially announced. It is a quiet gaze through every day scenes in Ramallah, Palestine, capturing the mood just hours before a historical moment will be remembered forever.

The three-part film Territory I, II, III can be considered as an extension of the exhibition ‘Territories’, curated by Anselm Franke and Eyal Weizman, in which Hugonnier participated. To coincide with the touring of the exhibition in Tel Aviv, Israel, a series of conferences, debates and bus tours were organised the focus of which was the local politics of landscape division between Jewish and Palestinian space.

The first part of the film examines the way Tel Aviv – ‘The White City’ - wants to represent and promote itself as a city of world heritage and international architecture through the use of Bauhaus style. It also highlights how urban myth or rumour can be substantiated by exhibitions, books and other forms of cultural reinforcement, to become part of collective consciousness and as a result change geography. The second part was filmed during a bus tour around the West Bank. It focuses on the situation between the Israeli settlement Har Homa and the Palestinian village Sur Baher. The film looks at the architecture of the settlements and their use as military optical devices. The final part of the triptych was filmed in Palestine and is a straight shot of one of the oldest houses in Ramallah.

The final new work to be included in the exhibition will be Art for Modern Architecture (Homage to Ellsworth Kelly). The work is a series of collages. Extracts from the Ellsworth Kelly book, Line Form Colour (1951), have been pasted onto the front cover of newspapers, from the various countries that the artist has travelled to over the past months.