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transnational identities, human connections, and cross-border rituals. Motivated by her experiences in diverse locales, Sunstrum explores how one's sense of identity develops within geographic and cultural contexts. Her drawings – narrative landscapes that appear simultaneously futuristic and ancient – shift between representational and fantastical depictions of volcanic, subterranean, cosmological, and precipitous landscapes.
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is a visual artist. Her practice includes drawing, painting, installation, and animation. Her work has been featured in numerous exhibitions, including the GTA21 Triennial
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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.
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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.
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Collection Competition, Museum of African Design (MOAD), Johannesburg; We See (in) the Dark, Museum of African Design (MOAD), Johannesburg; Mythopoeia, Tiwani Contemporary, London (2015)
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Brussels, Belgium; Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Kunsthaus ZĂĽrich, Germany; The Showroom in London, England; and the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa in Johannesburg, South Africa.
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Remembrances, Portobelo, Panama; El Museo Congo (The Congo Museum), Portobelo, Panama; Hidden Place, Hanes Art Center, University of North
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International Studies with a concentration in Trans-national Cultures in 2004. Sunstrum received her MFA from the Mt. Royal School of Art at the
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