28/11/2025
We gathered last night at The National Maritime Museum for a preview of Our Life is Here that opens to the public today.
Standing on the giant 440m2 ocean map, we listened to a series of short introductory speeches, followed by Debby Schutz and Peji Glad’s warm heartfelt messages from The Marshall Islands. After watching the OLIH trailer we went down to the exhibition space.
Thank you to everyone who came, old and new faces. It was great to meet the Pacific Advisory Board for the museum, museum staff, local artists and old friends of Cape Farewell.
Visit our website for more information about the exhibition.
Background: The exhibition at the National Maritime Museum, opening today, shows the works created by several artists during and in response to the expedition, including sculpture, painting, photography and video installations. The multi-award winning, 70-minute film, documenting the project, will also be screened during the run of the exhibition.
The project was named Kõmij Mour Ijin, Marshallese for Our Life is Here to reinforce that, no matter how threatened these islands are, they are nevertheless home to almost 40,000 incredibly resilient people.
Their story is as much our story: we all face climate crises.
