What Clarrie Wallis wrote about Mona Hatoum’s work (Hatoum et al., 2016) has been very inspiring for me:

“Hatoum’s work has been informed by her experience of exile, a condition of displacement shared by many in the modern era. The importance of Hatoum’s work lies in her ability to balance the specific and the general, to draw on particular cultural and political contexts and to show how these are imbricated within wider, universal concerns. Hot Spot 2006, for example is a steel cage-like globe. Using delicate red neon to outline the contours of the continents on its surface, the work buzzes with an intense, mesmerizing yet seemingly dangerous energy. The work suggests that it is not simply contested border zones that are political hot spots but an entire global situation – what Hatoum describes as a ‘world continually caught up in conflict and unrest’. Emerging from this approach is an exceptional body of work that places Hatoum at the forefront of contemporary art practice.”