“I want the work in the first instance to have a strong formal presence, and through the physical experience to activate a psychological and emotional response. In a very general sense I want to create a situation where reality itself becomes a questionable point.
Where one has to reassess their assumptions and their relationship to things around them. A kind of self-examination and an examination of the power structures that control us: Am I the jailed or the jailer? The oppressed or the oppressor? Or both.
I want the work to complicate these positions and offer an ambiguity and ambivalence rather than concrete and sure answers”
Mona Hatoum
Beirut, Libano, 1952