Artist to Know: Mona Hatoum

Adreenil9812 Jul, 2023Art

Sotheby?s Greets International Women?s Day With Minimalist Chair Sculpture Mona Hatoum?s art often holds a web of contradictions. Her early performance work carried distinct political undertones designed to challenge her audience. Gradually, though, the Palestinian artist moved into abstraction. Hatoum invites the viewer to ask critical questions. ?I?m working with feelings of displacement, disorientation, estrangement ? when the familiar turns into something foreign or even threatening,? she told Emma Robertson of The Talks in an interview...