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Video Title : Mona Hatoum's self-contradictory objects

Video Description : This video brought to you by Tate.org.uk Palestinian, London-based artist Mona Hatoum creates art that challenging our perceptions of everyday objects. "Often my work is about conflict and contradiction, and that contradiction can be within the actual object," she explains. One of her sculptures is a simple wheelchair, an unremarkable object apart from the fact that its handles have been replaced with knives. Another is a baby’s cot, but one with the bottom taken out and replaced with taut, menacing wires. Sometimes the materials she works with are unexpected, like the soap she used to draw a map of a peace agreement between Israel and Palestine. There are many internal contradictions at work in Hatoum’s art. What purpose do they serve? Do they get you thinking about commonplace objects in uncommon ways? Click here to learn more about Mona Hatoum and her work.

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