A Finissage of the Exhibition ‘Larissa Sansour’
26 February 2025
5:30 PM, doors at 5 PM
Bio Rex, Amos Rex
Book your spot online: for the price of your Amos Rex ticket
In the final week of the Larissa Sansour exhibition, we present Familiar Phantoms, the 8th artwork of Larissa Sansour’s solo exhibition – on display until 2 March 2025 – as part of a special finissage screening in Amos Rex’s Bio Rex cinema. Accompanying the screening is an artist talk, where Larissa Sansour and Søren Lind share insights into their artistic collaboration, their creative practices, and the use of fiction, alternative narratives, documentary, and film as tools of expression.
The artist talk is moderated by curator, researcher and writer Nat Muller, an expert in contemporary art from the Middle East and science fiction, and curator of the Danish Pavilion at the 2019 Venice Biennale, which featured Larissa Sansour’s work.
Before the screening, you’ll have an opportunity to visit the exhibition. After the screening and artist talk, we invite you to relax and continue the conversation in a more informal setting. Join us in the lounge for drinks and a chance to mingle with the speakers and other participants.
This event is held in English.
We hope to see you at the finissage to celebrate Larissa Sansour and her art!
Programme & tickets
About Familiar Phantoms
2023
film, 42 min
in Arabic, subtitles in English.
Courtesy of Larissa Sansour & Søren Lind
Familiar Phantoms is an experimental documentary short film about memory, history and trauma. It explores the impact of fiction and stories on the creation and reinterpretation of memory. It seamlessly combines film, narrative, special effects, family photos, and archival footage. These fragments and gaps form a narrative interweaving illusion and fact.
The film is Sansour’s most personal to date and has been inspired by her own family history and her childhood in Bethlehem. Slow, fluid scenes and tightly edited collages of objects, mementos, family photos and Super-8 footage alternate, shot both in the studio and in a derelict mansion. The editing and visuals mimic the actual workings of memory; revisiting the same imagery, objects and spaces, seeking out their meaning and place in a fragmentary collage, like as yet unnamed phantoms.
Larissa Sansour & Søren Lind
Palestinian-Danish artist Larissa Sansour (b. 1973, East Jerusalem) is an internationally acclaimed video and installation artist whose multi-stranded career extends from the early 2000s to the present. Sansour started her career in painting but soon moved on to photography and video.
Her early works combined popular culture, humour and activism. Today, Sansour also focuses on political topics through science fiction and experimental film narrative. She works closely with author and director Søren Lind, and most of the artworks shown at Amos Rex are created in this collaboration.
Larissa Sansour’s work has been shown in numerous art institutions around the world. She has participated in group exhibitions at MoMA in New York and Tate Modern in London, among others. In 2019, Sansour represented Denmark at the Venice Biennale 2019 and her works are part of several significant art collections.
Nat Muller
Nat Muller, PhD, is an independent curator, writer and researcher focusing on contemporary art from South West Asia and science fiction. In 2019 she curated the Danish Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale featuring Larissa Sansour. Her writing has been published in peer-reviewed journals and art publications. She has curated exhibition projects and film screenings internationally for museums, art institutions, film festivals, art fairs, and commercial galleries.
Muller has written numerous catalogue texts and is the editor of several artist monographs, including Sadik Kwaish Alfraji (Schilt Publishing, 2015); Nancy Atakan: Passing On (Kehrer Verlag, 2016); Walid Siti (Kehrer Verlag, 2020), and most recently Muhannad Shono [Works 2014-2024] (Kehrer Verlag, 2024). She is co-editor of Larissa Sansour Envisions the Future, the first academic volume on Sansour’s work (forthcoming, Peter Lang, 2025). She has taught across universities and art academies in the Netherlands and abroad.
Book a ticket
Online booking only – limited seats!
The Finissage tickets are for the price of your Amos Rex ticket:
0 € Museum card
5 € Everyone from 18 to 29 years old, all students, unemployed.
15 € Pensioners
20 € Regular admission
Please note that we’ll photograph the event, and the materials produced may be used as part of Amos Rex’s marketing, communication and museum archiving.
Event schedule
3:30 PM A chance to visit the exhibition
5:00 PM Doors open to Bio Rex
5:30 PM Opening words by Kieran Long & screening of Familiar Phantoms
6:20 PM Talk & Q&A: Nat Muller with Larissa Sansour and Søren Lind
7:30 PM Lounge open until 8:30 PM
