Rogue Agents of History, Wereld Museum, Installation View © Aad Hoogendoorn.
‘Rogue Agents of History’ is Larissa Sansour’s first solo exhibition in the Netherlands at the Wereldmuseum.
The exhibition features three films: the premiere of ‘A Sunken Tale of Losses Delayed’, commissioned by Wereldmuseum, and the films ‘In the Future They Ate from the Finest Porcelain’ and ‘Familiar Phantoms’. In addition, the presentation includes a range of Sansour’s artworks, as well as personal heirlooms, film props, and historical museum objects.
Pirates, ghosts, and guerrilla archaeologists play a central role in the exhibition. These “rogue agents” appropriate historical narratives, disrupt them, and imbue them with new meaning. Drawing on the Palestinian context, the exhibition explores universal themes such as identity, memory, belonging, loss, and the human drive for adventure.
‘Rogue Agents of History’ deliberately blurs the boundaries between eras, fact and fiction. The works span a broad spectrum of past, present, and future—from the Ottoman period and the ongoing Israeli occupation to imagined, bleak future scenarios.
June 22, 2026
