Abstract
Mona Hatoum, a retrospective exhibition organized by the Centre Pompidou, in collaboration with Tate Modern and the Finnish National Gallery/Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki, accordingly highlights her multifaceted approach to art making and the questions her work intentionally provokes. The entirety of the Tate press materials, including the catalogue, exhibition leaflet, and opening wall text, reiterate to audiences that Hatoum is a Lebanese-born Palestinian artist living and working in London. [...]the shape and color of the block interestingly (and perhaps tellingly) recalls the Kaaba (“Cube” in Arabic), or the structure at the center of the Great Mosque in Mecca. Themes of exile and displacement are continued in the final piece of the exhibition, a sculptural installation titled Undercurrent (red) (2008), which consists of interwoven red electrical cables that form a square mat, or quilt, on the concrete floor of the gallery.