Impenetrable, Mona Hatoum, 2009

I will talk about Impenetrable, an installation from Mona Hatoum. This artwork is a levitating huge cube made of black barb wire and fishing wire, placed in a white room : all barb wire are aligned so to shape a cube.

When we look at this artwork, we feel like a confinement and  it reveals a menacing aspect. The cube is composed of hundreds of barbed wire rods dangling from fishing wire.

Impenetrable takes the form of a grid.  The barbed wire evokes architectural form such as prisons. Indeed Mona Hatoum talks about her own experience as a Palestinian exile.

So all these elements can evocate conflict and violence.

I like this artwork because of the paradoxe between the gravity and the pain inspired by the barb wire and the lightess of this levitation cube

Sophie NAUD, E