This was my second visit to this powerful exhibition. Hatoum is a Palestinian exile who left her family in Lebanon. One moving piece in the exhibition is her reading of letters from her mother that speak of the mother's sadness at not being with her daughter and having lost her home in Palestine. Another is 12 Windows - pieces of embroidery representing different regions and made by women in refugee camps.
The installations all seemed to me very strong and I was particularly struck by Light Sentence, an extraordinary room with stacks of mesh lockers and a light slowly rising and falling in the middle of them. This created an eery feeling and an extraordinary shadow effect. Also memorable was the amazingly simple but powerful + and - which consisted of two rotating blades on a sandpit - one creating ridges and the other rubbing them away.
The final piece Undercurrent was also extraordinary, consisting of a square red mat made from electrical cable with some 80 long tassles with light bulbs on the ends which slowly ebbed and flowed in their illumination.
Without going through every piece, this was for me a thoroughly worthwhile exhibition and a powerful demonstration of installations with merit.
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