Mona Hatoum's "Set in Stone" employs the enduring materiality of Carrara marble to interrogate linguistic and geopolitical divides, with the two sculptural forms inscribed with "East" and "West" in Arabic script. The modest connection between the marble blocks via hemp string suggests both fragility and the possibility of bridging seemingly opposed territories, while the work's presentation on an oak shelf emphasizes its intimate, almost domestic scale despite its conceptual weight. First exhibited at Documenta 11 in 2002, the piece exemplifies Hatoum's sustained engagement with displacement, borders, and the politics of representation through deceptively simple formal interventions.