Mona Hatoum

: Static II 2008 steel chair, glass beads, wire

: Shift 2012 Wool

: Projection 2006 cotton and abaca

: Impenetrable (s version) 2010 steel, fishing wire

: Impenetrable (s version) detail 2010 steel, fishing wire

: Current Disturbance 1996 wood, wire mesh, computerised dimmer device and light bulbs

Mona Hatoum’s poetic and political oeuvre is realised in a diverse and often unconventional range of media, including installations, sculpture, video, photography and works on paper. Since the beginning of the 1990s, her work moved increasingly towards large-scale installations that aim to engage the viewer in conflicting emotions of desire and revulsion, fear and fascination. In her singular sculptures, Hatoum has transformed familiar, every-day, domestic objects such as chairs, cots and kitchen utensils into things foreign, threatening and dangerous.

Mona Hatoum has been awarded the prestigious 2011 Joan Miró Prize and a solo exhibition of her work will be held at Fundació Joan Miró in Barcelona in June 2012.

Source: http://whitecube.com/artists/mona_hatoum/