Installation stages a story about colonialism, home and the femme fatale.
For her first solo exhibition in the UK, the Netherlands-based artist Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum will create a large-scale installation within the Barbican’s Curve gallery.
Loosely inspired by the hometown of Sunstrum’s grandmother in Botswana, the installation features a series of film sets that tell an imagined story about everyday rural life in a twentieth-century colonial outpost. Moving across domestic space and colonial bureaucracies, the new body of work references the femme fatale archetype found in crime fiction novels and film noir to examine home, hybrid identities and wholeness.
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