Larisa Sitar

Larisa Sitar’s And then one thing led to another... in the Romanian Pavilion group exhibition focusses on violence — both in history itself, and that which is inflicted by writing history, or by representing it visually. She produces dioramas — large-scale illusionistic pictorial entertainment devices especially popular in the 19th century — in the form of etchings, the elements of which she borrows from disparate sources. In one, a monument to American politician Edward Everett finds itself in a mountainous landscape, and the scene becomes a setting for a brutal murder. Transplanting events out of sequence, Sitar points to history’s malleability at the hands of narrative.