Mona Hatoum : Kiasma - Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland

Mona Hatoum’s work presents us with a world characterized by conflict and contradictions. Her first solo exhibition in Finland gives an overviewof her work from the late-‘70s to the present. It gathers together works in media as varied as performance, video, photography, installation, sculpture and works on paper.

Hatoum creates poetic and often political works that comment on the state of the world at large. Her works are characterised by an unusual choice of materials and the use of elements such as light, electricity and magnetism.

She often uses furniture and other familiar objects which, when modified or scaled up, reflect a suspicious and hostile environment. Hatoum draws from the formal language of Minimalism, Kinetic and Conceptual Art, often with reference to Surrealism.