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Podcast: EMPIRE LINES
Episode: It Will End in Tears, Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum (2024) (EMPIRE LINES x Barbican)
Description: Contemporary artist Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum, and curator Diego Chocano, slip between places and times, reconstructing the landscape of Botswana in the centre of the city of London, through their filmic installation, It Will End in Tears (2024).
Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum’s practice spans landscapes and media, encompassing painting, installation, and animation. Their drawings take the form of narrative landscapes, that seem simultaneously futuristic and ancient, playing with conventions of linear time. Pamela often draws from literature, theatre, and science fiction - with references from Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower, to Guillermo del Toro‘s Pan’s Labyrint...