Mona Hatoum

vulnerability as architecture

Mona Hatoum is a Palestinian-born British artist whose work spans sculpture, installation, video, and performance. She uses everyday objects—kitchenware, beds, maps, furniture—altered through scale, material, or electrical charge to evoke displacement, conflict, and fragile embodiment. Grids, cages, and glowing wires often appear threatening yet minimal in form.

Hatoum’s practice balances political urgency with conceptual restraint.

Mona Hatoum is a Palestinian-born British artist known for sculptures and installations that explore displacement, vulnerability, and political structures.

Mona Hatoum is a Palestinian-British artist known for minimalist yet politically charged installations that transform domestic forms into sites of tension.

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