Mona Hatoum
Mona Hatoum used to be a performance artist, then, she work on more mechanical art installations and sculpture, which involving video, light and sound. While most of her work focusing on violence, oppression, and voyeurism, she has often made powerful references to the vulnerability and resistance, of our human bodies.
Light Sentence 1992
Mixed media, dimensions variable
light at the end(2002)
The installation Light at the End (2002) consists of an iron metal frame and five electric elements. It represents a dark tunnel with red, orange and yellow light at the end. This colored light seduces the spectator, as it appears warm and appealing, in contrast to the hostile darkness of the tunnel. However, the seductive color is a trap. Only when the spectator moves closer does the colored light reveal its real character as electric and dangerous. The warmness of red is transformed into the violent redness of blood.
