Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum is a figurative artist and designer based in Johannesburg, South Africa. Her work has been featured in numerous galleries and exhibitions, including Tiwani Contemporary in London, England and the Museum of African Design in Johannesburg. Having lived in Africa, Southeast Asia, and the United States, Sunstrum developed an alter-ego, Asme, to convey her evolving selfhood. The image of Asme is often super- imposed with overlapping gestures as a means of suggesting compounded time, illustrating her universal, atemporal existence. Sunstrum’s landscapes also expand on themes of timelessness; she reconstructs sites both real and imagined to reveal the small scale of individuals within the vast universe, a concept that is reminiscent of 18th-century notions of the sublime.
Pamela is represented by Goodman Gallery.