Mona Hatoum Grater Divide (2002)
In the late 1980s she began to make installations and sculptures in a wide range of materials.
These often use the grid or geometric forms to reference to systems of control within society. She has made a number of works using household objects which are scaled up or changed to make them familiar but uncanny.
Grater Divide mimics a room divider, like those used in changing rooms or hospitals. You’ll quite quickly notice, however, that this object is a 6 ft cheese grater. The piece is both comical and sinister, strangely graceful as a sculptural piece. The holes in the kitchen utensil are relatively harmless, but scaled up to these proportions they become threatening and potentially harmful. (from tate.org)
the artist seen through the Grater Divide
