Mona Hatoum’s poetic and political works are created in diverse media, including installation art, sculpture, video, photography, and works on paper. The inception of Hatoum’s career in the 1980s was marked by the creation of visceral performance art that focused intensely on the body. Beginning in the early 1990s, her work moved towards large-scale installations aimed at provoking in the viewer conflicting emotions of desire and revulsion, fear and fascination. In her singular sculptures, Hatoum transforms familiar domestic objects such as chairs, cots, and kitchen utensils into foreign, threatening and dangerous items. The use of found materials marked by the patina of time and identity charges her works and endows them with a depth and context that is both personal and universal.

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