A major exhibition of British-Palestinian artist Mona Hatoum’s work at the Barbican arrives at a timely — and politically charged — moment, when war and migration dominate the headlines.
Born in Lebanon to Palestinian parents exiled from their homeland, Hatoum herself was exiled in London by war in the 1970s. Her works will be displayed in the Barbican’s new Level 2 gallery, in dialogue with those of Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti, a titan of 20th-century art whose gaunt figures became emblematic of post-war trauma.
