Maximillian William: Exploratory Drawings, Group show with Michelle Williams Gamaker

Maximillian William is proud to present Exploratory Drawings, an exhibition featuring drawings and photographs from sculptors and filmmakers. Though these artists are best known for their interventions in space, this exhibition offers a different perspective on their practices by presenting inventive works in the two-dimensional plane. These are not designs or documentation but autonomous works of art which are inextricably linked to the artists’ better-known pieces through the reiteration of themes across mediums.

Filmmaker Michelle Williams Gamaker presents a vitrine filled with various objects – scripts, drawings, archival and original photography – that relate to her film The Bang Straws (2021), which reimagines the casting process of Sidney Franklin’s The Good Earth (1937), a film notorious for a white actor’s racist portrayal of a Chinese character. Mixing stills from The Good Earth with ephemera from the set of The Bang Straws, Williams Gamaker centres the process of filmmaking, encouraging the audience to question the deliberate choices made by the original filmmakers.

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