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22.06 2011

A delicate looking installation reveals its alter ego as a dangerous and impenetrable, barbed wire fenced, detached and alienated space.

Impenetrable

Impenetrable is an ethereal structure that almost vanishes in the background. Yet this installation not only occupies physical space, it also clearly defines and safeguards that space, which in turn becomes fencing itself and thus impenetrable.

Impenetrable
Impenetrable
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Impenetrable
Impenetrable, 2009. Black finished steel, fishing wire; 300 x 300 x 300 cm. Galleria Continua, White Cube. Artist Mona Hatoum was born in 1952 in Beirut, Lebanon. Lives and works in London, United Kingdom, and Berlin, Germany. Images courtesy of Art Basel, Galleria Continua, White Cube Gallery.
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Artwork Description
Impenetrable appears to float in the space: a delicate and precariously suspended cube. This floating cube is ghost like, but at the same time it has a physicality that possesses the space. However, on closer inspection, this cube which appears so delicate from a distance actually consists of barbed wire rods, and juxtaposes notions of magic, wonder, and fragility with those of danger and fear. The barbed wire is a deadly encumbrance but at the same time an ethereal and astonishing structure of minimal form.

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