Larrisa Sansour (PS/UK)
Larissa Sansour was born in 1973 in East Jerusalem, Palestine, and 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.
Recent solo exhibitions include Nikolaj Kunsthal in Copenhagen, New Art Exchange in Nottingham, Mosaic Rooms in London, Turku Art Museum in Finland, Wolverhampton Art Gallery and Kulturhuset in Stockholm.
Sansour’s work has featured in the biennials of Istanbul, Yinchuan, Busan and Liverpool. She has exhibited at venues such as Tate Modern, London; Centre Pompidou, Paris; LOOP, Seoul; Al Hoash, Jerusalem; Queen Sofia Museum, Madrid; Centre for Photography, Sydney; Galerie Nationale de Jeu de Paume, Paris; Louisiana Museum of Contemporary Art, Denmark; House of World Cultures, Berlin, and MOCA, Hiroshima.
Sansour currently lives and works in London, UK.