Mona Hatoum, who is Palestinian in origin and currently resides in London and
Berlin, draws on her biographical experience as an expatriate to create works that investigate themes related to oppression, violence, dislocation and the vulnerability of the body in these situations. Sometimes the artist makes her installations using simple household objects, such as tables, chairs and kitchen equipment. Transforming them into fields traversed by electrical current or modifying their scale and proportions, Hatoum emphasizes their potential threatening charge, exposing the strong political significance that the concept of home can have.
In Undercurrent (Red), the artist utilizes the form of a carpet to create a field traversed by strong voltage. Traditionally associated with the idea of prayer or of domestic warmth, Hatoum’s carpet, in contrast, becomes a potentially lethal microcosm that, instead of welcoming, pushes away those who approach.

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  Everything is connected 2

  curated by Beatrice Merz Castello di Rivoli presents tutto è connesso 2, a new installation of the permanent collection, in continuity with the broader redefinition of the spaces that were set aside for the previous tutto è connesso show. The…

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  Everything is connected. Research and investigations into art of the past decade through the collection

  curated by Beatrice Merz tutto è connesso, the exhibition on the first and second floors of Castello di Rivoli, was conceived as a way of establishing a critical presentation based on works in the permanent collection, which will then result…

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  Mona Hatoum

  Curated by Giorgio Verzotti   Mona Hatoum (Beirut, 1952), Palestinian by birth, emigrated to Lebanon but then became an exile after the civil war broke out while she was staying in Europe. Through her works she evokes the condition of…

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  Collezionismo a Torino (collecting in Turin)

  This exhibition illustrates the importance of private collecting in Italy, which is sometimes shrewder and more astute than its public counterpart in discovering ever-new contributions to the development of contemporary art history. The public is presented with a selection of…