In this latest body of work, I am interested in the fragility of the hero; the ways in which the hero is both heroic and anti-heroic; both a victor and a perpetrator who can experience violence but also cause violence. I am interested in the moment when the hero, despite being on the field of battle, cannot help but become soft, must go inward, must cry. — Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum*
BATTLECRY—an exhibition of new paintings by Sunstrum—is now on view in London. These large scale works investigate, among other things, histories of post-colonial portraiture and romanticist landscape paintings.
PAMELA PHATSIMO SUNSTRUM—BATTLECRY*
Through September 26, by appointment.
26 Cork Street, Burlington Estate, London.
Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum, Battlecry, Goodman Gallery, September 3, 2020–September 26, 2020, from top: The Two I, 2020, pencil, oil and acrylic on wood panel; Rider, 2020, pencil, oil and acrylic on wood panel; The Seven, 2020, pencil, oil and acrylic on wood panel; The Knitter, 2020, pencil, oil and acrylic on wood panel; Trooper, 2020, pencil, oil and acrylic on wood panel; The Two II, 2020, pencil, oil and acrylic on wood panel. Images courtesy and © the artist and Goodman Gallery.
