Mona Hatoum

“Undercurrent”, 2008, by Mona HatoumIN PICTURES! In honour of her 2010 Käthe-Kollwitz-Preis win, Akademie der Künste is showing recent work by the installation artist Mona Hatoum.A child of Palestinian refugees who fled to Lebanon after the 1948 war, Hatoum made one of her most striking pieces – “Undercurrent” (2008; above) – about scattered identity: rope is woven into a red square at the piece’s center; the red ropes meander out from the central square, each rope ending with a candle. Want to see more?MONA HATOUM | July 31-September 5. For more information, visit www.adk.de