The Fruit is There to be Eaten (2018)
POSTPONED – Michelle Williams Gamaker
Join artist Michelle Williams Gamaker for a tour of the exhibition in which she will consider the works in light of her own practice, which deploys ‘fictional activism’ as a methodology where marginalised characters return as brown protagonists to challenge the fictional injustices to which they have been historically consigned. Reading objects and reflecting on their historical agency also falls under this scrutiny.
BIOGRAPHY
Michelle Williams Gamaker works with moving image, performance and installation. Through a wider interrogation of the artificial nature of cinematic construction, she recasts characters proposing critical alternatives to the colonial and imperialist approaches to storytelling in early 20th Century British and Hollywood studio films. Scriptwriting, workshopping with actors, acquiring film memorabilia and producing props for the intricate staging of her film sets are all vital elements in the re-enactment of the set-constructed landscapes that shaped Williams Gamaker’s love of cinema.
She recently completed a trilogy of films entitled ‘Dissolution’ (2019), comprising ‘House of Women’ (2017), ‘The Fruit is There to be Eaten’ (2018) and ‘The Eternal Return’ (2019), in which characters from Powell and Pressburger’s 1947 ‘Black Narcissus’ unravel as they become aware of their screened and staged realities. She is currently completing the ‘Untold Stories’ commission at Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter, which will result in a new film ‘The Silver Wave’ (2020) and four-month exhibition.
Join artist Michelle Williams Gamaker for a tour of the exhibition in which she will consider the works in light of her own practice, which deploys ‘fictional activism’ as a methodology where marginalised characters return as brown protagonists to challenge the fictional injustices to which they have been historically consigned. Reading objects and reflecting on their historical agency also falls under this scrutiny.
BIOGRAPHY
Michelle Williams Gamaker works with moving image, performance and installation. Through a wider interrogation of the artificial nature of cinematic construction, she recasts characters proposing critical alternatives to the colonial and imperialist approaches to storytelling in early 20th Century British and Hollywood studio films. Scriptwriting, workshopping with actors, acquiring film memorabilia and producing props for the intricate staging of her film sets are all vital elements in the re-enactment of the set-constructed landscapes that shaped Williams Gamaker’s love of cinema.
She recently completed a trilogy of films entitled ‘Dissolution’ (2019), comprising ‘House of Women’ (2017), ‘The Fruit is There to be Eaten’ (2018) and ‘The Eternal Return’ (2019), in which characters from Powell and Pressburger’s 1947 ‘Black Narcissus’ unravel as they become aware of their screened and staged realities. She is currently completing the ‘Untold Stories’ commission at Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter, which will result in a new film ‘The Silver Wave’ (2020) and four-month exhibition.
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