Larissa Sansour (IL/DK) | Sbara

SYNOPSIS

Heavily referencing the 1980 cult classic The Shining by Stanley Kubrick, the video piece Sbara explores the castigation of Arabs in contemporary Western dialogue. By adding an audio montage combining historical and current quotes on the Middle East to footage paraphrasing scenes from the original film, Sbara seeks to expose the cyclical nature of Middle Eastern rhetoric and policies and emphasize the psychological terror inflicted upon those at the receiving end of this repetitively stagnant political discourse.

ARTIST’S BIOGRAPHY

Larissa Sansour was born 1973 in Jerusalem, she studied Fine Art in Copenhagen, London and New York, and earned her MFA from New York University. Her work is interdisciplinary, immersed in the current political dialogue and utilizes video art, digital photography, experimental documentary and the internet. Sansour’s work has been exhibited worldwide in galleries, museums as well as film festivals. Her most notable shows include the Tate Modern in London, the National Museum of Reina Sofia in Madrid, and a current show at the Arken Musem of Modern Art in Denmark. Sansour is an International board member at the new concept school Chaos Pilots where she contributes with her writing on arts, politics and education. She lives and works in Copenhagen, Denmark.

FILMOGRAPHY

• Sbara, 2007, 8'30"
• Land Confiscation Order 06/24/T, 2007, 10'00"
• Run Lara Run, 2007 in progress
• Severed Routes, 2006, 30'00", documentary
• Mloukhieh, 2006, 10'00"
• Mobile War Zones, 2006, 16'00", a collaboration with Khaled D. Ramadan
• Happy Days, 2006, 3'00"
• The Dark Side of Citrus, 2006, 10'00"
• Bethlehem Bandolero, 2005, 5'39"
• Moscow Metro, 2004, 5'08"
• Gaza, 2004, 3'59"
• Segregation Wall, 2004, 11'23"
• Peace Activists vs. Israeli Tank, 2003, 6'00"