Mona Hatoum: Routes of Dissoncance: Kunst Museum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland

Mona Hatoum's oeuvre is based on the body as a projection screen for social and political topics. Born in 1952 to a Palestinian family in Beirut, she emigrated in 1975 to London, where she experienced being a foreigner through her own body. In the 1980s she translated these experiences into disconcerting performances. Since the 1990s she has been making sculptures and installations in which the absent body and the home serve as metaphors for threats and vulnerability. Austere forms contrast with fragile materials; everyday objects feign comfort but reveal latent danger. "I like to use furniture in my work because it is about everyday life. . . . If these objects become either unstable or threatening, they become a reference to our fragility." (Hatoum)