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Trouble in the Archive: Of Counter-Memories, Breakable Memories and Other Proleptic Moves into the Past in Larissa Sansour's and Wael Shawky's Arts
2017
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This article focuses on the solo exhibitions of Larissa Sansour entitled "In the Future They Ate from the Finest Porcelain" and "Archeology: In Abstentia" (2016), along with Wael Shawky's "Cabaret Crusades" trilogy (2010-2014). Their exhibitions offer fascinating reflections on the archive as construction and on the articulation of memory in traumatic contexts, whether these are the Nakba and the on-going colonisation of Palestine by Israel or the Christian Crusades to regain Jerusalem. In
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