Mona Hatoum and her Palestinian family lived in Beirut, Lebanon in 1952 but she now lives and works in London and Berlin. Mona Hatoum has transformed familiar, every-day, domestic items such as chairs, and kitchen utensils into things foreign, intimidating and daring. Mona Hatoum works with a random collection of materials, spaces, and visual genres, the only real consistency and noticeability in Hatoum's work is her use of home style everyday used products. The viewers of Mona’s artwork can perseve these pieces from anything to a household nightmare to a symbol of a great threatening machine. Outstanding at the heart of the foreign and the familiar, Hatoum builds a strong sense of vulnerability and danger. Mona Hatoum demoralizes our associations of the foreign with
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Graters have their own powers of suggestive hazard, the bullet-hole punctures, the wound-slicing slits, the unintentional grating of one’s own flesh that is uncontrollably anticipated, not least by experience, since it occurs to completely everyone that’s why the massive scale seems pretty excessive. As for another well renowned artist Donna Marcus is known for her sculptures, made from aluminum kitchenware from second-hand shops. Donna Marcus’ work has been unveiled broadly in Australia and included in many national sculpture surveys. Viewers believe Donna Marcus likes the way recycled materials bring memories of their past uses to a new context. One of Donna’s well known works is the enlarged scale of a lemon juicer put together as a 3 dimensional art piece, the significance of this piece is the common use remains so eccentric from seeing it so outsized to when it’s just a diminutive utensil in your household. The similarities between both artists is they both use common everyday materials nearly all families would have within their
Graters have their own powers of suggestive hazard, the bullet-hole punctures, the wound-slicing slits, the unintentional grating of one’s own flesh that is uncontrollably anticipated, not least by experience, since it occurs to completely everyone that’s why the massive scale seems pretty excessive. As for another well renowned artist Donna Marcus is known for her sculptures, made from aluminum kitchenware from second-hand shops. Donna Marcus’ work has been unveiled broadly in Australia and included in many national sculpture surveys. Viewers believe Donna Marcus likes the way recycled materials bring memories of their past uses to a new context. One of Donna’s well known works is the enlarged scale of a lemon juicer put together as a 3 dimensional art piece, the significance of this piece is the common use remains so eccentric from seeing it so outsized to when it’s just a diminutive utensil in your household. The similarities between both artists is they both use common everyday materials nearly all families would have within their