A revised and expanded edition of one the most popular titles in the Contemporary Artists Series

Born in Lebanon, Palestinian artist Mona Hatoum was exiled to London, where she has lived and worked since the mid-1970s. Through performance, video, sculpture, and installation, she creates architectonic spaces that relate to the body, language, and the condition of exile as well as transforming everyday, domestic objects into things foreign, threatening, and dangerous. Often exquisitely beautiful, Hatoum’s works combine states of emotion and longing with the formal simplicity of Minimalism, creating powerful evocations of displacement, denial, and otherness.

Michael Archer is an art critic based in London.

Guy Brett is an art critic, curator, and lecturer.

Catherine de Zegher is director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Ghent, Belgium.

Nancy Spector is chief curator of the Brooklyn Museum in New York.