Pam Virada

Pam Virada

(b. 1993, Bangkok, Thailand)

Lives and works in Amsterdam

Exploring intersections between the cinematic and temporal, Pam Virada navigates the ghostly forces and intimate stories in domestic spaces through mixed-media installations and expanded cinema. She reconfigures existing narratives, investigating the themes of impermanence and intimate turmoil. She uses the Sino-Thai diaspora as a starting point to conduct micro-narrative research, investigating individual and collective memories within family constellations, whilst studying the junctures of Hauntology and non-western philosophy. Virada investigates oxymoronic concepts—blending the fictional and the existing, and probing the dynamics of placement and displacement through mnemonic devices, mundane objects and their gestures. She dives into the intangible presences of the ghostly and ancestral—proving their uncanny yet comforting influence on our imaginations.