VAT. Guillem de Castro, 118
Mona Hatoum has hung a mirror on the IVAM wall. When we look at our faces we read: “You are still here”. It's so true. we are still here, today we are lucky to be alive; tomorrow, who knows? Interacting with the viewer at all times, The artist of Palestinian origin stirs our insides with pieces loaded with meaning and socio-political implications, to whom he gives a few touches of humor, black maybe, but humor at the end of the day. This is how we perceive it when we contemplate Paravent y daybed, some vegetable and cheese graters the size of a screen and a bed, which may seem like comical instruments of torture. Despite the powerful message, Mona Hatoum does not leave aside the aesthetic sense: we see it in pieces like Impenetrable, a large cube that levitates in the room formed by barbed wire rods, that gives off an infinite but distressing beauty; or in Map, a world map built from marbles, deliciously unstable, like the world we live in. This is one of those exhibitions that surprise, that hurt, that impact, full of beautiful but hurtful objects that remind us that life is uncertain, beautiful and fragile. AU
