Royal Albert Memorial Museum: The Silver Wave: Michelle Williams Gamaker 2022
The Silver Wave, by critically-acclaimed moving image and performance artist Michelle Williams Gamaker, was commissioned by RAMM in 2020 to celebrate the theme of ‘Untold Stories’.
Tiny wooden figurines from RAMM’s collections have inspired a film which tells the story of a woman who survived for two years, stranded on an uninhabited island north of Siberia.
The Silver Wave by Michelle Williams Gamaker will be on display in the World Cultures gallery until 21 March 2021. The 12-minute film, commissioned by RAMM, is inspired by objects from the World Cultures collection, and by the incredible story of Ada Blackjack; an Iñupiak woman and the only surviving member of an expedition to Wrangel Island in the Arctic in 1921.
rammuseum.org.uk/whats-on/the-silver-wave-by-michelle-williams-gamaker/
Tiny wooden figurines from RAMM’s collections have inspired a film which tells the story of a woman who survived for two years, stranded on an uninhabited island north of Siberia.
The Silver Wave by Michelle Williams Gamaker will be on display in the World Cultures gallery until 21 March 2021. The 12-minute film, commissioned by RAMM, is inspired by objects from the World Cultures collection, and by the incredible story of Ada Blackjack; an Iñupiak woman and the only surviving member of an expedition to Wrangel Island in the Arctic in 1921.
rammuseum.org.uk/whats-on/the-silver-wave-by-michelle-williams-gamaker/
‘Ada’s story is one of survival at all costs. Accompanying the explorers to Wrangel Island went against her better judgement, but she needed money to care for her son Bennet. It is clear in later interviews that the events that took place on the island were very traumatic to remember. Working with a selection of artefacts from RAMM’s collection I take them on a journey to tell Ada’s untold story. Using projected archival images over RAMM’s objects, a scene unfolds behind that is quite fantastical, reflecting Ada’s dreams and hopes while on the island’. Michelle Williams Gamaker.