Modified daily-life objects. That's is the essence of what Mona Hatoum (Beirut, 1952) is presenting at Fundación Proa. What does she pretend with these distortions? Transformations, producing a semantic change in which the objects lose their names and gain new meanings. And what's the purpose? Because they are have something to do with the life of the artist, the lack of territory, the lost of borders and post-colonialism. 

Hatoum was born in Beirut because her parents were exiled there after the British domination that gave birth to the State of Israel. In her 20s, while in London, civil war unravels in Lebanon so she can no longer return. She becomes a forced migrant. This violence seen in the world is reflected in her work.