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Conversation with artist Larissa Sansour
From May 02, 2013 until May 09, 2013
Palestinian visual artist Larissa Sansour will be holding a talk with the Madrid public on Thursday, May 9 at the Casa Árabe headquarters.
This event, which will be taking place as of 7:00 p.m. in the institution’s Auditorium (at Calle Alcalá, 62) will also include participation by María Pallier, director of the program Metrópolis on Spain’s La 2 television station (RTVE) and Miguel Cereceda, President of the Contemporary Art Institute (IAC) and Professor of Aesthetics at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.
During this event, the video Nation Estate (2011, 9 mins.) will be shown.
Free entrance until the room’s capacity is full.
Born in East Jerusalem (1973), Ms. Sansour studied Fine Arts in London, New York and Copenhagen. She currently lives and works in the United Kingdom. Her works are multidisciplinary and use various forms of language including video, photography, installations, books and the Internet.
Sansour’s work has been greatly influenced by the political events of the times, and in her work we can repeatedly find reflections revolving around the dichotomy between the sense of belonging to a place and being removed from it. Her work frequently journeys through the world of fiction to deal with modern-day political realities. Her approach to nature and the complexity of life in Palestine and the Middle East, as well as the use she regularly makes of visual forms normally associated with entertainment, coupled with the humor that she adds to many of her works, contrast with the seriousness one might expect from the works of artists originating in the region.
References to science fiction, comic superheroes, “spaghetti westerns” and horror movies converge with politics in the Middle East and the social problems for creating intricate parallel universes in which a new system of values can be decoded.
Her recent solo exhibitions include those at the Galerie Anne de Villepoix in Paris, the Photographic Center in Copenhagen, Kulturhuset in Stockholm, Depo in Istanbul and Jack the Pelican in New York.
Her works have been exhibited at the biennials of Istanbul, Busan and Liverpool. She has had exhibits at locations such as the Tate Modern (London), the Brooklyn Museum (New York), the Centre Pompidou (Paris), LOOP, Seoul; Al Hoash (Jerusalem), the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (Madrid); the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art (Denmark); the World Cultures House (Berlin) and MOCA (Hiroshima).
Ms. Pallier is the director of “Metrópolis”, a weekly program on contemporary art which is broadcast on Spanish National Television’s channel La 2, whose editorial team she has been a member of since 1995. She combines this work with freelance activities as a curator, conference speaker, author and jury member at national and international events. From 1997 to 1999, she was a member of the Advisory Committee and a video art curator at the Arco Electrónico art fair, and in 1995 she produced and directed Ciberría (an International Electronic Art Fair) in Bilbao. From 1990 to 1995, she directed the Trimarán arts promotion agency, dedicated to the distribution and organization of events related with video art, experimental film and inter-media art.
President of the Instituto de Arte Contemporáneo, a tenured professor of Aesthetics and Arts Theory at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and art critic for the cultural magazine of the ABC newspaper in Madrid, he is also an independent exhibition curator and has organized showings such as Towards a New Classicism: Twenty years of Spanish sculpture (Madrid, Valencia, 1999) and Desesculturas (Madrid, Alicante, 2002). Amongst his books, one must highlight El origen de la mujer sujeto (The Origin of the Subject-Woman, Madrid, 1996) and Problemas del arte contemporáne@ (Problems in Contempor@ry Art, Murcia, 2006).
This talk with artist Larissa Sansour is being held thanks to the cooperation of Madrid’s Sabrina Amrani Gallery (at Calle Madera 23), which is presenting the exhibition A moon without a people, a selection of works by the artist, including the video A Space Exodus, until June 1.
During this event, the video Nation Estate (2011, 9 mins.) will be shown.
Free entrance until the room’s capacity is full.
Larissa Sansour
Born in East Jerusalem (1973), Ms. Sansour studied Fine Arts in London, New York and Copenhagen. She currently lives and works in the United Kingdom. Her works are multidisciplinary and use various forms of language including video, photography, installations, books and the Internet.
Sansour’s work has been greatly influenced by the political events of the times, and in her work we can repeatedly find reflections revolving around the dichotomy between the sense of belonging to a place and being removed from it. Her work frequently journeys through the world of fiction to deal with modern-day political realities. Her approach to nature and the complexity of life in Palestine and the Middle East, as well as the use she regularly makes of visual forms normally associated with entertainment, coupled with the humor that she adds to many of her works, contrast with the seriousness one might expect from the works of artists originating in the region.
References to science fiction, comic superheroes, “spaghetti westerns” and horror movies converge with politics in the Middle East and the social problems for creating intricate parallel universes in which a new system of values can be decoded.
Her recent solo exhibitions include those at the Galerie Anne de Villepoix in Paris, the Photographic Center in Copenhagen, Kulturhuset in Stockholm, Depo in Istanbul and Jack the Pelican in New York.
Her works have been exhibited at the biennials of Istanbul, Busan and Liverpool. She has had exhibits at locations such as the Tate Modern (London), the Brooklyn Museum (New York), the Centre Pompidou (Paris), LOOP, Seoul; Al Hoash (Jerusalem), the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (Madrid); the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art (Denmark); the World Cultures House (Berlin) and MOCA (Hiroshima).
María Pallier
Ms. Pallier is the director of “Metrópolis”, a weekly program on contemporary art which is broadcast on Spanish National Television’s channel La 2, whose editorial team she has been a member of since 1995. She combines this work with freelance activities as a curator, conference speaker, author and jury member at national and international events. From 1997 to 1999, she was a member of the Advisory Committee and a video art curator at the Arco Electrónico art fair, and in 1995 she produced and directed Ciberría (an International Electronic Art Fair) in Bilbao. From 1990 to 1995, she directed the Trimarán arts promotion agency, dedicated to the distribution and organization of events related with video art, experimental film and inter-media art.
Miguel Cereceda
President of the Instituto de Arte Contemporáneo, a tenured professor of Aesthetics and Arts Theory at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and art critic for the cultural magazine of the ABC newspaper in Madrid, he is also an independent exhibition curator and has organized showings such as Towards a New Classicism: Twenty years of Spanish sculpture (Madrid, Valencia, 1999) and Desesculturas (Madrid, Alicante, 2002). Amongst his books, one must highlight El origen de la mujer sujeto (The Origin of the Subject-Woman, Madrid, 1996) and Problemas del arte contemporáne@ (Problems in Contempor@ry Art, Murcia, 2006).
This talk with artist Larissa Sansour is being held thanks to the cooperation of Madrid’s Sabrina Amrani Gallery (at Calle Madera 23), which is presenting the exhibition A moon without a people, a selection of works by the artist, including the video A Space Exodus, until June 1.
