{"id":100930,"date":"2012-03-26T18:21:15","date_gmt":"2012-03-26T16:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.castellodirivoli.org\/artista\/mona-hatoum\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T15:10:55","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T14:10:55","slug":"mona-hatoum","status":"publish","type":"artista","link":"https:\/\/www.castellodirivoli.org\/en\/artista\/mona-hatoum\/","title":{"rendered":"Mona Hatoum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>In <em>Undercurrent (Red)<\/em>, 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\u2019s carpet, in contrast, becomes a potentially lethal microcosm that, instead of welcoming, pushes away those who approach.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"collezione":[1969],"class_list":["post-100930","artista","type-artista","status-publish","hentry","collezione-castello-di-rivoli-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Mona Hatoum - Castello di Rivoli<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Find out more about the artist Mona Hatoum and her works in the Collection of Castello di Rivoli Museo d&#039;Arte Contemporanea.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.castellodirivoli.org\/en\/artista\/mona-hatoum\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mona Hatoum - 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