The

Curve

London

and

Pamela

Phatsimo

Sunstrum

Present

‘It

Will

End

in

Tears’

In her first solo exhibition at a major UK institution, Botswanan-Canadian artist, Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum creates dynamic works newly commissioned for The Curve Barbican Centre Silk Street, London. Sunstrum studied International Studies with concentration in Transnational Cultures at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and holds an MFA in Multidisciplinary Art from the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, Maryland. She lives and works in The Hague, The Netherlands.

In ‘It Will End in Tears’ the artist fills The Curve with theatrical installations, building a dynamic architectural intervention resembling film and stage set design. Sunstrum transforms the gallery into a series of theatrical sets which the viewers will move through in order to view the artist’s paintings. Overall the exhibition weaves together the story of a femme film character living in an imagined colonial outpost. This reflect the artist’s own experience of living across Africa, Southeast Asia and the United States as well as her her ongoing research in ethnography, ecology and quantum physics.