Artist Larissa Sansour was born in Jerusalem and her practice is underscored by the urgency of Palestine's political problems. She typically deploys dry wit and pop culture references in her work as a means of cutting through cultural divides and connecting the international community with the universal relevance of this situation. Allusions to comic strips, sit coms and Hollywood films feature heavily throughout Sansour's previous works, however this exhibition focuses specifically on her more recent exploration into the genre of sci-fi. (http://www.nae.org.uk/exhibition/larissa-sansour-in-the-future-they-ate/96)
These images where printed on giant aluminium sheets which I thought looked really effective and made the images a lot more detailed, the clarity of the images were amazing, the images had a really eerie feel to them and as the pieces of work were being exhibited a video was also featured, the music from that added the eeriness and the atmosphere of the room, I thought this was a really good technique to use. All the images where made up by all separate photos and there were so many images within in one image this must of been so time consuming and must of taken a lot of patience however you can tell this by the amazing finish of the image. I really like the idea of the image as it looks at "resistance group on the brink of the apocalypse, burying elaborate porcelain which is suggested to belong to this entirely fictional civilisation. Their aim is to influence history and support future claims to their vanishing lands" http://www.nae.org.uk/exhibition/larissa-sansour-in-the-future-they-ate/96
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