Mona Hatoum

With much of her work inspired by her heritage and life experience, born to Palestinian parents in Beirut before settling in London following her exile from Lebanon during the civil war, Mona Hatoum’s work focuses on exploring conflict, issues around race and gender and politics.

Working across a wide range of mediums, including sculptures, photography and video, performance and more traditional paper-based works, Hatoum’s creations often take everyday objects and subverts them to create unnerving artworks which challenge the viewer to consider the intersection of the individual with the world of politics.

Known for pushing the boundaries of surrealism and minimalism, Mona Hatoum has found success in the different mediums she uses, notably Grater Divide, Hotspot, Measures of Distance and Light Sentence. One theme which is present throughout all of Hatoum’s works are her own personal experience of conflict and the way in which she found herself stranded in London, in the artist’s own words, “that created a kind of dislocation, which manifests itself in my work”.