Mona Hatoum

Catherine de Zegher is Director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Ghent, Belgium.

Guy Brett is an art critic, curator and lecturer.

Michael Archer is an art critic based in London.

Born in Lebanon, Palestinian artist Mona Hatoum was exiled to London, where she has lived and worked since the mid-1970s. Through performance, video, sculpture and installation, she creates architectonic spaces that relate to the body, language and the condition of exile, as well as transforming everyday, domestic objects into things foreign, threatening and dangerous. Often exquisitely beautiful, Hatoum’s works combine states of emotion and longing with the formal simplicity of minimalism, creating powerful evocations of displacement, denial and otherness.

Nancy Spector is Chief Curator of the Brooklyn Museum in New York.

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