Exhibition Sites
Site #1 Larissa Sansour
In the Future They Ate from the Finest Porcelain,
Larissa Sansour/Søren Lind, 2016
In the Future They Ate
From the Finest Porcelain resides in the cross-section between sci-fi,
archaeology and politics. Combining live motion and CGI, the film explores the
role of myth for history, fact and national identity.
A narrative resistance
group makes underground deposits of elaborate porcelain - suggested to belong
to an entirely fictional civilisation. Their aim is to influence history and
support future claims to their vanishing lands. Once unearthed, this tableware
will prove the existence of this counterfeit people. By implementing a myth of
its own, their work becomes a historical intervention - de facto creating a
nation.