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Larissa Sansour

A Space Exodus

2011

Digital print from video

44 × 79 cm

Unique

Location: Paris, France

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About the artwork

This photograph from a 2009 video by Larissa Sansour shows the artist and video-maker on the moon planting the Palestinian flag. By evoking the conquest of space and man's first step in 1969, the artist reclaims this nationless site for her own country, acutely affected by Israeli-Palestinian conflicts. Here, she stages the soundtrack to Stanley Kubrick's Space Odyssey, giving this space voyage a burning geopolitical dimension by concluding: "A small step for a Palestinian, a giant leap for mankind". The video won the Muhr Award at the Dubai International Film Festival.

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This photograph evokes one of the best-known video works by the committed Palestinian artist Larissa Sansour. Characteristic of her work, the geopolitical dimension is combined here with pop culture and science fiction. For this work, Larissa Sansour won the Muhr prize at the Dubai International Film Festival. She is one of the most recognized video artists of her time, representing Denmark at the Venice Biennale in 2019.

About the artist

Born in 1973 in East Jerusalem, Larissa Sansour now lives and works in London. Using video, photography, installation and sculpture as her main mediums, her work readily borrows elements of language from popular culture, which she hybridizes with her socio-political preoccupations, often concerning the Palestinian situation and, on a larger scale, the various conflicts in the Middle East. The artist then composes her testimonies as fictions, revealing the absurdity of the geopolitical realities she mentions. In 2011, A Space Exodus caused a scandal when the 2011 Elysée Lacoste Prize decided to exclude the prize-winning video as being too politically oriented. Nevertheless, her work has been the subject of numerous exhibitions, for example at Nikolaj Kunst in Copenhagen, the Turku Art Museum in Finland and DEPO in Istanbul, and the artist has been invited to present her work at numerous biennales, including those in Venice and Istanbul.

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