The contemporary artist Mona Hatoum explores topics like political conflicts, displacement, and defamiliarization in her work. By transforming familiar, ordinary objects into works that seem foreign or threatening, her art reflects the complex relationship between individuals, their bodies, and the world that surrounds them. Here’s an introduction to how Mona Hatoum turns everyday items such as kitchen utensils, light bulbs, and human hair into artworks that evoke a feeling of uncanniness and danger. – The Collector

Mona Hatoum finds the interesting in the uninteresting, she forms the ordinary into extraordinary. Her way of thinking resonates with mine.

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