The art of Alberto Giacometti (1901–1966)—so profound in its form and provocative in its meaning—continues to influence generations of artists. London’s Barbican explores this legacy in a three-part series of exhibitions that places the work of contemporary sculptors in conversation with the master. In the second installment, Giacomettis mix with the art of Mona Hatoum, who was born to Palestinian parents in Beirut in 1952. After the Lebanese Civil War broke out, in 1975, she was forced into exile in London. Following roughly a decade spent making performance and video art, Hatoum began creating sculptures and installations that turned household items, such as cheese-graters and colanders, into objects of revulsion. Like Giacometti, Hatoum grapples with alienation, displacement, violence, incarceration, and the human condition. Hatoum personally selected all 12 Giacometti pieces in the show. —Harry Seymour