OLIVE TREE
2012
Lambda print on Fuji Matt paper
60 x 120cm; 23.6 x 47.2in
(unframed)
edition 5/5

To be sold with a Certificate of Authenticity from Lawrie Shabibi Gallery

Property from a Private Collection, London

Provenance
Lawrie Shabibi Gallery, Dubai, 2014

Larissa Sansour is a Danish-Palestinian artist, born in East Jerusalem, she studied Fine Arts in Copenhagen, London and New York. She is a visual artist who combines video, photography, experimental documentary, new media, the book form and the internet. Her work has been exhibited worldwide in galleries, museums and film festivals. Some of these include Tate Modern, London; the Reina Sofia, Madrid; and the Arken Museum of Modern Art in Denmark.

Sansour's works represent the essence, the reality and the intricacy of life in Palestine and the Middle East using visual elements associated with entertainment and televised leisure activities. She uses humorous scenes such as references to science-fiction or spaghetti westerns that she always contrasts with scenes from the current situation in Palestine and the Middle East.

Larissa Sansour has represented Denmark at the 58th Venice Biennale and her recent solo exhibitions have been at the Whitworth Gallery, Manchester, Dar-El Nimer, Beirut, KINDL, Berlin and Copenhagen Contemporary.