Mona Hatoum
Mona Hatoum’s works explore themes of home and displacement through the perspective of the Palestinian exile, using common domestic objects that often, on closer inspection, reveal menacing qualities. Hatoum’s collection of sculptures and installations incorporates motifs of containment and violence, from steel cages and sandbag walls to barbed wire and grenades.
https://www.artsy.net/artist/mona-hatoum
is a Lebanese-born Palestinian video artist and installation artist who lives in London, United Kingdom.
Mona Hatoum was born in 1952 in Beirut, Lebanon to Palestinian parents.[2] Although born in Lebanon, Hatoum does not identify as Lebanese
Hatoum explores a variety of different subject matter via different theoretical frameworks. Her work can be interpreted as a description of the body, as a commentary on politics, and on gender and difference as she explores the dangers and confines of the domestic world.Her work can also be interpreted through the concept of space as her sculpture and installation work depend on the viewer to inhabit the surrounding space to complete the effect. There are always multiple readings to her work.[5][6] The physical responses that Hatoum desired in order to provoke psychological and emotional responses ensures unique and individual reactions from different viewers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mona_Hatoum
Impentrable, 2009
Barbed wire, fishing wire
118 1/10 × 118 1/10 × 118 1/10 in
300 × 300 × 300 cm
https://www.artsy.net/artwork/mona-hatoum-impentrable
What I have learnt:
The use of common materials is quite effective
Gets an emotional reaction from the materials she uses
Exemplifies the importance of material
