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  • INICIO
  • HOME
  • PRESENTACIÓN
  • INTRODUCTION
  • ENSAYOS
    • ALONSO y MARFUL
    • Clélia BARBUT
    • Lucia CORRAIN
    • Katy DEEPWELL
    • Maria Antonietta TRASFORINI
  • ESSAYS
    • ALONSO y MARFUL
    • Clélia BARBUT
    • Lucia CORRAIN
    • Katy DEEPWELL
    • Maria Antonietta TRASFORINI
  • LAS DERIVAS
    • DERIVA I >
      • ALONSO y MARFUL
      • Elena del RIVERO
      • Andi ARNOVITZ
      • Tahmineh MONZAVI
      • A K DOLVEN
      • Lina SELANDER
      • Howardena PINDELL
      • Bastienne SCHMIDT
      • Sophie SCHMIDT
    • DERIVA II >
      • ALONSO y MARFUL
      • Chantal MAILLARD
      • Eva LOOTZ
      • Carmela GARCÍA
      • Kate GILMORE
      • Eva MARISALDI
      • Salla TYKKÄ
      • Mira SCHOR
      • Jemima STEHLI
      • Liliana PORTER
    • DERIVA III >
      • ALONSO y MARFUL
      • Teresa MATAS
      • Salomé LAMAS
      • Melanie MANCHOT
      • Alison WILDING
      • Pélagie GBAGUIDI
    • DERIVA IV >
      • ALONSO y MARFUL
      • Molimo (Chefa ALONSO/Barbara MEYER/Cova VILLEGAS)
      • Susan SCHWALB
      • Erika SUDERBURG
      • Dotty ATTIE
      • Janaina TSCHÄPE
      • Lotty ROSENFELD
      • Zoulikha BOUABDELLAH
      • María Magdalena CAMPOS-PONS
    • DERIVA V >
      • ALONSO y MARFUL
      • Veru ICHÉ
      • Marta Maria PÉREZ BRAVO
      • Cirenaica MOREIRA
      • Sandra VÁSQUEZ de la HORRA
      • Rona PONDICK/Corinne NELSON
      • Mathilde TER HEIJNE
    • DERIVA VI >
      • ALONSO y MARFUL
      • Tania BRUGUERA
      • Oreet ASHERY
      • Alix PEARLSTEIN
      • Larissa SANSOUR
      • Jeanne SILVERTHORNE
      • Agnès THURNAUER
      • Natalie BOOKCHIN
      • Nene HUMPHREY
    • DERIVA VII >
      • ALONSO y MARFUL
      • Beth MOYSÉS
      • Regina José GALINDO
      • Senga NENGUDI
      • Riikka KUOPPALA
      • Petah COYNE
      • Faith WILDING
      • Lydia SCHOUTEN
      • Dorit CYPIS
    • DERIVA VIII >
      • ALONSO y MARFUL
      • Ryoko SUZUKI
      • Nancy BUCHANAN
      • Liliana MORO
      • Melissa MEYER
      • Joyce KOZLOFF/Emily KIACZ
      • Penny SLINGER
      • Daphné le SERGENT
      • Analía SABAN
  • THE DERIVES
    • DÉRIVE I >
      • ALONSO y MARFUL
      • Elena del RIVERO
      • Andi ARNOVITZ
      • Tahmineh MONZAVI
      • A K DOLVEN
      • Lina SELANDER
      • Howardena PINDELL
      • Bastienne SCHMIDT
      • Sophie SCHMIDT
    • DÉRIVE II >
      • ALONSO y MARFUL
      • Chantal MAILLARD
      • Eva LOOTZ
      • Carmela GARCÍA
      • Kate GILMORE
      • Eva MARISALDI
      • Salla TYKKÄ
      • Mira SCHOR
      • Jemima STEHLI
      • Liliana PORTER
    • DÉRIVE III >
      • ALONSO y MARFUL
      • Teresa MATAS
      • Salomé LAMAS
      • Mélanie MANCHOT
      • Alison WILDING
      • Pélagie GBAGUIDI
    • DÉRIVE IV >
      • ALONSO y MARFUL
      • Molimo (Chefa ALONSO/Barbara MEYER/Cova VILLEGAS)
      • Susan SCHWALB
      • Erika SUDERBURG
      • Dotty ATTIE
      • Janaina TSHÄPE
      • Lotty ROSENFELD
      • Zoulikha BOUABDELLAH
      • María Magdalena CAMPOS-PONS
    • DÉRIVE V >
      • ALONSO y MARFUL
      • Veru ICHÉ
      • Marta Maria PEREZ BRAVO
      • Cirenaica MOREIRA
      • Sandra VÁSQUEZ DE LA HORRA
      • Rona PONDICK/Corinne NELSON
      • Mathilde TER HEIJNE
    • DÉRIVE VI >
      • ALONSO y MARFUL
      • Tania BRUGUERA
      • Oreet ASHERY
      • Alix PEARLSTEIN
      • Larissa SANSOUR
      • Jeanne SILVERTHORNE
      • Agnès THURNAUER
      • Natalie BOOKCHIN
      • Nene HUMPHREY
    • DÉRIVE VII >
      • ALONSO y MARFUL
      • Beth MOYSÉS
      • Regina José GALINDO
      • Senga NENGUDI
      • Riikka KUOPPALA
      • Petah COYNE
      • Faith WILDING
      • Lydia SCHOUTEN
      • Dorit CYPIS
    • DÉRIVE VIII >
      • ALONSO y MARFUL
      • Ryoko SUZUKI
      • Nancy BUCHANAN
      • Liliana MORO
      • Melissa MEYER
      • Joyce KOZLOFF/Emily KIACZ
      • Penny SLINGER
      • Daphné le SERGENT
      • Analía SABAN
  • EXPOSICIONES
  • EXHIBITIONS
  • CONTACTO
  • CONTACT
Larissa SANSOUR (b. 1973, Est Jerusalem, Palestine) studied fine arts in London, New York and Copenhagen. Her work is immersed in the current political dialogue and utilises video, photography, installation and sculpture. Central to her work is the tug and pull between fiction and reality in a Middle Eastern context.
A recent interest is the dialectics between myth and history. In several pieces over the past years, she has been exploring not only the sci-fi genre, but also the comic book superhero. Both forms have an inherent ability to communicate the most fundamental ambitions of a people or a civilization in a way that is naturally inspired by, but never hampered or restricted by a non-fictional reality. Also, despite its high production value and glossy imagery, sci-fi tends to allow for a specific kind of almost nostalgia framing of the topic at hand. Even the slickest sci-fi almost invariably carries within it a sense of retro, ideas of the future tend to appear standard and cliché at the same time as they come across as visionary.
In the case of Palestine, there is an eternal sense of forecasting statehood, independence and the end of occupation. The ambitious ideas that we hope to achieve have long since become so repetitive that the odd mix of nostalgia and accomplishment that the sci-fi genre often embodies lends it itself well to the topic.
In a recent series of works, Sansour has been exploring the role of archaeology for nation building and national identity. In the absense of a viable peace process in Israel/Palestine, archaeology has long since become a battleground for settling territorial disputes. In her pieces, she explores and reverses the archaeological methodology in an attempt to influence colonialist narratives and manipulate history.
Sansour's work has featured in the biennials of Istanbul, Busan and Liverpool. She has exhibited at venues such as Tate Modern (London); Centre Pompidou (Paris); LOOP (Seoul); Al Hoash (Jerusalem); Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (Madrid); Centre for Photography (Sydney); Cornerhouse (Manchester); Townhouse (Cairo); Maraya Arts Centre; (Sharjah, UAE); Empty Quarter (Dubai); Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume (Paris); Iniva (London); Institut du Monde Arabe (Paris); Third Guangzhou Triennial (Guangzhou, China); Louisiana Museum of Contemporary Art (Denmark); House of World Cultures (Berlin) and MoCA (Hiroshima).
Recent solo exhibitions include New Art Exchange (Nottingham); Mosaic Rooms (London); Turku Art Museum (Finland); Wolverhampton Art Gallery; Photographic Center (Copenhagen); Kulturhuset (Stockholm); Lawrie Shabibi (Dubai); Sabrina Amrani (Madrid) and DEPO (Istanbul).
Larissa Sansour lives and works in London (UK).
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  • INICIO
  • HOME
  • PRESENTACIÓN
  • INTRODUCTION
  • ENSAYOS
    • ALONSO y MARFUL
    • Clélia BARBUT
    • Lucia CORRAIN
    • Katy DEEPWELL
    • Maria Antonietta TRASFORINI
  • ESSAYS
    • ALONSO y MARFUL
    • Clélia BARBUT
    • Lucia CORRAIN
    • Katy DEEPWELL
    • Maria Antonietta TRASFORINI
  • LAS DERIVAS
    • DERIVA I >
      • ALONSO y MARFUL
      • Elena del RIVERO
      • Andi ARNOVITZ
      • Tahmineh MONZAVI
      • A K DOLVEN
      • Lina SELANDER
      • Howardena PINDELL
      • Bastienne SCHMIDT
      • Sophie SCHMIDT
    • DERIVA II >
      • ALONSO y MARFUL
      • Chantal MAILLARD
      • Eva LOOTZ
      • Carmela GARCÍA
      • Kate GILMORE
      • Eva MARISALDI
      • Salla TYKKÄ
      • Mira SCHOR
      • Jemima STEHLI
      • Liliana PORTER
    • DERIVA III >
      • ALONSO y MARFUL
      • Teresa MATAS
      • Salomé LAMAS
      • Melanie MANCHOT
      • Alison WILDING
      • Pélagie GBAGUIDI
    • DERIVA IV >
      • ALONSO y MARFUL
      • Molimo (Chefa ALONSO/Barbara MEYER/Cova VILLEGAS)
      • Susan SCHWALB
      • Erika SUDERBURG
      • Dotty ATTIE
      • Janaina TSCHÄPE
      • Lotty ROSENFELD
      • Zoulikha BOUABDELLAH
      • María Magdalena CAMPOS-PONS
    • DERIVA V >
      • ALONSO y MARFUL
      • Veru ICHÉ
      • Marta Maria PÉREZ BRAVO
      • Cirenaica MOREIRA
      • Sandra VÁSQUEZ de la HORRA
      • Rona PONDICK/Corinne NELSON
      • Mathilde TER HEIJNE
    • DERIVA VI >
      • ALONSO y MARFUL
      • Tania BRUGUERA
      • Oreet ASHERY
      • Alix PEARLSTEIN
      • Larissa SANSOUR
      • Jeanne SILVERTHORNE
      • Agnès THURNAUER
      • Natalie BOOKCHIN
      • Nene HUMPHREY
    • DERIVA VII >
      • ALONSO y MARFUL
      • Beth MOYSÉS
      • Regina José GALINDO
      • Senga NENGUDI
      • Riikka KUOPPALA
      • Petah COYNE
      • Faith WILDING
      • Lydia SCHOUTEN
      • Dorit CYPIS
    • DERIVA VIII >
      • ALONSO y MARFUL
      • Ryoko SUZUKI
      • Nancy BUCHANAN
      • Liliana MORO
      • Melissa MEYER
      • Joyce KOZLOFF/Emily KIACZ
      • Penny SLINGER
      • Daphné le SERGENT
      • Analía SABAN
  • THE DERIVES
    • DÉRIVE I >
      • ALONSO y MARFUL
      • Elena del RIVERO
      • Andi ARNOVITZ
      • Tahmineh MONZAVI
      • A K DOLVEN
      • Lina SELANDER
      • Howardena PINDELL
      • Bastienne SCHMIDT
      • Sophie SCHMIDT
    • DÉRIVE II >
      • ALONSO y MARFUL
      • Chantal MAILLARD
      • Eva LOOTZ
      • Carmela GARCÍA
      • Kate GILMORE
      • Eva MARISALDI
      • Salla TYKKÄ
      • Mira SCHOR
      • Jemima STEHLI
      • Liliana PORTER
    • DÉRIVE III >
      • ALONSO y MARFUL
      • Teresa MATAS
      • Salomé LAMAS
      • Mélanie MANCHOT
      • Alison WILDING
      • Pélagie GBAGUIDI
    • DÉRIVE IV >
      • ALONSO y MARFUL
      • Molimo (Chefa ALONSO/Barbara MEYER/Cova VILLEGAS)
      • Susan SCHWALB
      • Erika SUDERBURG
      • Dotty ATTIE
      • Janaina TSHÄPE
      • Lotty ROSENFELD
      • Zoulikha BOUABDELLAH
      • María Magdalena CAMPOS-PONS
    • DÉRIVE V >
      • ALONSO y MARFUL
      • Veru ICHÉ
      • Marta Maria PEREZ BRAVO
      • Cirenaica MOREIRA
      • Sandra VÁSQUEZ DE LA HORRA
      • Rona PONDICK/Corinne NELSON
      • Mathilde TER HEIJNE
    • DÉRIVE VI >
      • ALONSO y MARFUL
      • Tania BRUGUERA
      • Oreet ASHERY
      • Alix PEARLSTEIN
      • Larissa SANSOUR
      • Jeanne SILVERTHORNE
      • Agnès THURNAUER
      • Natalie BOOKCHIN
      • Nene HUMPHREY
    • DÉRIVE VII >
      • ALONSO y MARFUL
      • Beth MOYSÉS
      • Regina José GALINDO
      • Senga NENGUDI
      • Riikka KUOPPALA
      • Petah COYNE
      • Faith WILDING
      • Lydia SCHOUTEN
      • Dorit CYPIS
    • DÉRIVE VIII >
      • ALONSO y MARFUL
      • Ryoko SUZUKI
      • Nancy BUCHANAN
      • Liliana MORO
      • Melissa MEYER
      • Joyce KOZLOFF/Emily KIACZ
      • Penny SLINGER
      • Daphné le SERGENT
      • Analía SABAN
  • EXPOSICIONES
  • EXHIBITIONS
  • CONTACTO
  • CONTACT