White Cube, the contemporary art gallery in Bermondsey, is currently showcasing Mona Hatoum’s ‘Remains to be Seen’.
This is Hatoum’s first show in London since the Tate Modern in 2016. Her use of relics and remnants leads you down thought-provoking avenues, exploring themes of confinement, conflict and mobility. Possibly a critical reflection on our world, Hatoum makes references to the increasing presence of surveillance.
Before I wrote this I had never been to White Cube and I had no idea what lay beyond those glass doors. So I went inside with a camera, taking photos of what I saw and noting my immediate responses.
We hang on a fine thread as we are the operators of a worsening global condition.
Reflecting the mobility of architectural creation.
As we develop, urbanise, gentrify and create, inter-connectedness and confinement run parallel to each other, all of them increasing.
Alone the world burns. Hollowed by the all consuming rage of humanity. Finding unit along with perspective.
Heart-like vases are a representation of our own, and the cage is the restriction that meta-narrative places upon some of us.
Surveillance hangs over us all.
Scorched chairs – a remembrance of the life that sat on them, and a reminder that we are the architect of our own demise.
Remains To Be Seen is on at White Cube until 3rd November.
