Since 2014, British moving image and performance artist Michelle Williams Gamaker has been developing ‘fictional activism’: the restoration of people of colour performing in 20C British and Hollywood films.

In her work, such performers migrate from marginalised characters to central figures, returning to challenge the fictional injustices to which they have been historically consigned.

Distant Relative marks a new chapter in this exploration, with a focus on Williams Gamaker&rsquo… more