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Untitled (Wheelchair<\/em>) pictured left, is used for Shakespeare&#8217;s cover.\u00a0 This is one of a series of works, all of which deal with the body in its absence.\u00a0 I will not describe my reaction to these sculptures, as they are open to interpretation, but it is difficult to consider these images without being drawn into them.\u00a0 This image shows a steel wheelchair, hard and uncompromising, on casters.\u00a0 It looks like institutional furniture. However, this is not the architypal Model 8F wheelchair of the NHS. It appears instead more like a hospital&#8217;s kitchen trolley. Two kitchen knives emerge where the handles should be.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 255px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" title=\"Untitled (Wheelchair II)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.extrart.it\/articoli\/pic\/006001-01.jpg\" alt=\"Untitled (Wheelchair II) by Mona Hatoum\" width=\"251\" height=\"251\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Untitled (Wheelchair II) sculpture by Mona Hatoum<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>Untitled (Wheelchair II)<\/em> seemingly repeats this image.\u00a0 However, the handles are now deeply serated knives, the chair is slanted forwards at an angle like an italic letter.\u00a0 Movement and speed seemingly enter the picture, implying a pushing force.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A third image from this series is <em>Webbed 1 <\/em>(below). This sculpture, again in grey steel, depicts a hospital bed.\u00a0 The springs of the bed are arranged as a spiders web. To find out more about Hatoum&#8217;s art, publications and exhibitions, and to see these works in more detail visit her pages at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitecube.com\/artists\/hatoum\/wheelchair\/\">White Cube Gallery<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_742\" aria-labelledby=\"figcaption_attachment_742\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 304px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slewth.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/webbed1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-742\" title=\"webbed1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.slewth.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/webbed1.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"Webbed 1 by Mona Hatoum\" width=\"300\" height=\"236\" srcset=\"https:\/\/slewth.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/webbed1.jpg 380w, https:\/\/slewth.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/webbed1-300x236.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"figcaption_attachment_742\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Webbed 1, Scuplture by Mona Hatoum<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sarahlewthwaite.typepad.com\/.shared\/image.html?\/photos\/uncategorized\/2007\/12\/03\/webbed1_2.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\r\n\t\t<!-- BEGIN ODIOGO LISTEN BUTTON v2.5.7 (WP) -->\r\n\t\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" language=\"javascript\">\r\n\t\t<!--\r\n\t\t\/\/ ODIOGO_START:do_NOT_remove_this_comment\r\n\t\tshowOdiogoReadNowButton (\"687068\", \"Disability Rights and Wrongs: Mona Hatoum\", \"64\", 290, 55);\r\n\t\t\/\/ -->\r\n\t\t<\/script>\r\n\t\t<br\/>\r\n\t\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" language=\"javascript\">\r\n\t\t<!--\r\n\t\tshowInitialOdiogoReadNowFrame (\"687068\", \"64\", 290, 0);\r\n\t\t\/\/ ODIOGO_END:do_NOT_remove_this_comment\r\n\t\t\/\/ -->\r\n\t\t<\/script>\r\n\t\t<!-- END ODIOGO LISTEN BUTTON v2.5.7 (WP) -->\r\n\t\t\n<p>I&#8217;ve recently been reading Tom Shakespeare&#8217;s Disability Rights and Wrongs, a book that has been cropping up on every Disability Studies reading list.\u00a0 At the recent Disability Research Forum at Sheffield Hallam, discussion of the book kicked off with consideration of the front piece, a work by artist Mona Hatoum.\u00a0 I was the only member [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/slewth.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/slewth.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/slewth.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slewth.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slewth.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/slewth.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slewth.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slewth.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slewth.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}