Mona Hatoum's *Steel and Rubber* presents a stark and unsettling juxtaposition of industrial materials, inviting the viewer to contemplate the tension between rigidity and flexibility, control and resistance. The work is characteristic of Hatoum's broader practice, in which everyday or utilitarian objects are transformed into charged, often visceral meditations on the body, power, and vulnerability. Through the cold hardness of steel set against the pliable, skin-like quality of rubber, the piece evokes a quiet sense of restraint and latent threat.