In her art, Sansour uses video, photography, book form and web pages, as well as
installation art. She includes references to various elements from popular culture such as
Spaghetti Westerns, horror films and superheroes. She also makes use of
science fiction as a vehicle for providing an alternative perspective on current social issues. Sansour has had solo exhibitions in
New York City,
Copenhagen,
Stockholm,
Istanbul and
Paris. She has been included in group exhibitions including the
Istanbul Biennial, the Busan Biennale in
South Korea and the
Liverpool Biennial, as well as exhibitions at the
Tate Modern, the
Brooklyn Museum, the
Centre Georges Pompidou, the
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, the
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art and the
Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art. Her work is included in the collections of the Imperial War Museum in
London, the
Wolverhampton Art Gallery, the Museum of Contemporary Art in
Denmark, the
Carlsberg Foundation, the
Barjeel Art Foundation, the
Louis Vuitton Collection and the Nadour Collection. Her show at the
Mosaic Rooms was cited in
Art Review as one of the world's "must-see" exhibitions in the summer of 2016. Larissa Sansour represented Denmark at the Venice Biennale 2019 with her exhibition
Heirloom; an enactment of a
dystopic future in a state of an undergone ecological collapse. In 2020 her work was presented at
Bildmuseet, Umeå University, Sweden, showing the
Heirloom exhibition. The exhibition included Sansour's
science fiction film In Vitro, which, as the artist explained in
Ocula Magazine, "questions the cyclicality of history and the fact that no matter where we are heading, revision is always needed." In 2022, Sansour and her husband Søren Lind debuted a new film installation,
As If No Misfortune Had Occurred In The Night, at
FACT Liverpool. The installation was a three-channel video setup with surround sound, displaying the 22-minute film, which centers around an Arabic-language opera performed by Palestinian
soprano Nour Darwish. Sansour and Lind continued collaborating in 2023 with their film
Familiar Phantoms. The work draws on Sansour's Palestinian and Russian family history, providing "intimate insight into how personal identity is shaped by geo-political events and how the experiences of our ancestors imprint themselves on our lives." The film was jointly commissioned by the Whitworth and Film and Video Umbrella in association with the Irish Museum of Modern Art.
Venice Biennale 2019 In 2018 Larissa Sansour was appointed by The
Danish Arts Foundation to represent Denmark at
Venice Biennale 2019 –
La Biennale di Venezia – the 58th International Art Exhibition. Dutch curator Nat Muller has been selected to curate the exhibition, called
Heirloom, in the Danish pavilion. ==Personal life==