Larissa Sansour & Søren Lind:
A Sunken Tale of Losses Delayed
Larissa Sansour & Søren Lind:
A Sunken Tale of Losses Delayed
Larissa Sansour’s new work A Sunken Tale of Losses Delayed (2026) premieres in Asia at the Grand Stair, viewers will witness a brief opening narrative performance before entering the film. A Sunken Tale of Losses Delayed follows a Palestinian pirate captain (Maisa Abd Elhadi) who boards imperial vessels to reclaim looted colonial artefacts and return them to their owners. During the voyage, a merchant bound for the 1900 Paris Exposition meets ghostly figures with insights into a future he has yet to see, shaking his perception of the decades to come as rife with promise and possibility. This screening challenges our perceptions of physical space, temporality, objects, history, and their interrelations.
The event will be followed by a conversation with the artists moderated by Sunny Cheung, Curator, Design and Architecture, M+, in English.
About the Artists
Larissa Sansour (b. 1973, Palestinian) works primarily in film, photography, and installation. Søren Lind (b. 1970, Danish) is an author, artist, director, and scriptwriter. The duo has collaborated on a series of art projects and films that address the dialectics between myth, documentary, and historical narrative, often through the lens of science fiction. Their work has been presented at film festivals and exhibitions around the world and collected by major art museums. In 2019, they represented Denmark at the 58th Venice Biennale with the video installation In Vitro.
Portrait of Larissa Sansour and Søren Lind. Photo: Stella Ojala, courtesy of the artists
Image at top: Larissa Sansour, Søren Lind. A Sunken Tale of Losses Delayed, 2026. Photo: Courtesy of the artists