The exhibition Indigo is the Colour of Grief at Göteborgs Konsthall features Larissa Sansour’s three latest film works.
What role do traumas of the past play, and is it even possible to avoid passing them on to future generations? In her work, Sansour explores the relationship between past, present and future, her own experiences from life in the diaspora, the creation and reinterpretation of memories, as well as impending or ongoing ecological collapse.
To explore contemporary challenges such as conflicts and environmental issues, Sansour employs various narrative forms including opera, personal essay films, documentary elements, and science fiction. In her works, science fiction serves as a refuge and a means to create space for reflection and alternative realities.
With her poetic films, Larissa Sansour opens a dialogue that offers perspectives on current political and universal human issues.
Larissa Sansour lives in London and has been collaborating closely with philosopher and writer Søren Lind for many years. Read more about Sansour on the artist page, where you can also find an interview film with Larissa and Søren.
The title of the exhibition is derived from the traditional Palestinian mourning practice where the mourners’ clothes are dyed with indigo to signify the depth and seriousness of grief. Indigo remains in the fabric’s fibers and can never be completely faded away.
Larissa Sansour lives in London and has been collaborating closely with philosopher and writer Søren Lind for many years.
The films shown at Göteborgs Konsthall
Familiar Phantoms from 2023, is a personal film about Sansour’s own family history and childhood.
As If No Misfortune Had Occurred in the Night from 2022, is a film opera about loss, grief and inherited trauma, featuring the Palestinian soprano Nour Darwish.
In Vitro from 2019, is a dystopian work about the aftermath of an environmental disaster.
