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Mona Hatoum  born 1952

Mona Hatoum Incommunicado 1993
© Mona Hatoum
Incommunicado  1993

Metal cot and wire
displayed: 1264 x 575 x 935 mm
sculpture

Purchased with funds provided by the Gytha Trust 1995

T06988
The bare metal bars of this child's cot resemble those of a prison cell, while the springs have been replaced by taut cheese wires. Hatoum has transformed a symbol of comfort and refuge into a claustrophobic space suggesting a place of torture and incarceration. The sculpture evokes themes of child abuse, as well as the suffering experienced by political prisoners.
 (From the display caption August 2004)