Galerie Chantal Crousel is pleased to announce its participation in the inaugural edition of Art Basel Qatar, with a solo presentation of work by Mona Hatoum. This body of work challenges perceptions of displacement and confinement, exemplifying Hatoum’s ability to merge personal experience with global narratives through minimal yet powerful forms.

Moving between sculptures and wall-based works, this presentation reveals how Hatoum's formal language, rooted in Minimalism and geometry, becomes a powerful means of addressing vulnerability, control, and the tension between intimacy and exposure.

In sculptures such as Inside Out (concrete) (2019) the artist places the body at the core of her inquiry, using the recurring motif of the globe, here entirely covered by a circuitous pattern reminiscent of intestines or brain lobes. The work creates a contradiction between the implied malleability of bodily forms and the hard, earthy concrete construction of the object. This tension continues in Cage for One (2022), a circular, double-barred steel structure built to the proportions of a person standing upright, with no room to move and suggesting states of isolation or extreme confinement. In Mirror (2025), the recurring grid motif takes the form of a wall-mounted cage made of rebar, confronting the viewer with an ambiguous structure that foregrounds the physical and psychological limitations we face. In Untitled (wall cabinet) II (2017), biomorphic forms of molten glass contrast with the cabinet’s rigid framework.

Together, these works highlight how material and spatial structures can confine the body, shaping our experience of restriction and resilience. 

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