Artist Talk: Larissa Sansour

Larissa Sansour and Søren Lind will discuss the works featured in the exhibition In the Future They Ate from the Finest Porcelain with academic, editor and writer Anthony Downey.

In this ambitious show, Sansour and Lind create a vision of a futuristic world where the excavation of the past is a battleground. They offer a poetic and charged reflection on the politicisation of archaeology where the material past is used as a tool to justify territorial claims and assert historic entitlement. This is in particular reference to Israel/Palestine but is also reflective of other contested spaces and histories.

The discussion will offer compelling insight into Sansour’s practice which often explores the crossover between the fictional and the factual, interrogating personal and political issues.