"Mona Hatoum brings a constellation of hand-blown glass spheres and a motorized metal tower sculpture to her exhibition at Fondazione Prada in Milan. Named 'Over, under, and in between,' the site-specific project is on view from January 29th to November 9th, 2026, divided into three parts comprising a web, a map, and a grid. These installations find a temporary home in the reactivated Cisterna building, once located on Fondazione Prada's compound and which housed the silos and tanks of a former alcohol distillery."
"When visitors enter the Cisterna building at Fondazione Prada, they find delicate, transparent, hand-blown glass spheres suspended above their heads. They form the shape of a spider's web, a recurring theme in Mona Hatoum's repertoire, as a means for her to delve into the topics of familiar ties and connectedness as well as entrapment, idleness, and neglect. For the artist, a web can provide a home or a safe place, but it can also suggest entrapment."
Mona Hatoum presents a site-specific project titled 'Over, under, and in between' at Fondazione Prada from January 29 to November 9, 2026. The project is divided into three parts—a web, a map, and a grid—installed in the reactivated Cisterna building that once housed silos and tanks of a former alcohol distillery. The space accommodates the height and volume of the large-scale works and envelops viewers. Delicate, transparent hand-blown glass spheres hang overhead forming a spider's web motif that evokes both connectedness and entrapment. The central room holds translucent red glass balls arranged as a borderless world map.
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