Commissioned by the Danish Arts Foundation for the 58th Venice Biennale, In Vitro, co-directed with Søren Lind, is a 2-channel Arabic-language sci-fi film filmed in black and white. It is set in the aftermath of an eco-disaster. An abandoned nuclear reactor under the biblical town of Bethlehem has been converted into an enormous orchard. Using heirloom seeds collected in the final days before the apocalypse, a group of scientists are preparing to replant the soil above.
In Vitro, 2-channel film, 28’, Larissa Sansour/Søren Lind, 2019
In Vitro, 2-channel film, 28’, Larissa Sansour/Søren Lind, 2019
Commissioned by the Danish Arts Foundation for the 58th Venice Biennale, Monument for Lost Time takes a psychological object from In Vitro's fiction and converts it to a physically imposing fact. The sphere is painted in Black 2.0, a shade so black that no light is reflected. This turns the sphere into an optical illusion, rendering it virtually absent, yet at the same time intimidatingly present and overwhelming, as an embodiment of inherited trauma.
The floors are concrete, with interspersed tiles manufactured by a Anan Tiles in Nablus, creating an architectural intervention. The walls are light grey, and a soundscape based on low frequency vibrations plays as a backdrop.
Monument for Lost Time, Larissa Sansour/Søren Lind, 2019
Music and sound :Mons Niklas Schak
Photos: Ugo Carmeni
The floors are concrete, with interspersed tiles manufactured by a Anan Tiles in Nablus, creating an architectural intervention. The walls are light grey, and a soundscape based on low frequency vibrations plays as a backdrop.
Monument for Lost Time, Larissa Sansour/Søren Lind, 2019
Music and sound :Mons Niklas Schak
Photos: Ugo Carmeni
