Mona Hatoum

'Light Sentence'  1992 

When Israel invaded Lebanon in 1982, Mona Hatoum responded to the conflict with a performance piece entitled The negotiating table. As in many early works, Hatoum used her body to explore universal notions of violence, oppression, confinement and displacement. She lay curled on a table for several hours, blindfolded and enclosed in a body bag covered with entrails, blood and bandages. The table, illuminated by a single bulb, was flanked by 2 empty chairs; the silence of the interrogation room jarringly punctuated by news reports of the war and leaders in peace negotiations.



'Kapan'  2012  Five steel rebar cages with red glass

'Cage-a-deux' 2002

Mona Hatoum is another artist that uses cages as an installation. I especially like 'Light Sentence' and it has given me the idea to use light, e.g in the form of light bulbs. I can experiment with the light and dark that comes through in the cage that suggests the good and bad in a relationship.  

http://www.realtimearts.net/article/66/7766