Savannah Wood
Kadist is happy to welcome Savannah Wood for a research residency in dialogue with the artist Xaviera Simmons in the first quarter of 2022. Savannah Wood is an artist and cultural organizer with deep roots in Baltimore and Los Angeles. Wood works primarily in photography, text and installation to explore spirituality, domesticity, and identity-formation, often in relation to place. She combines new and old works with found objects and archival documents to create unique, accumulative installations that privilege non-linear notions of time. Major themes in her work include ancestral research, reframing land as a readable archive of historical activity, and reimagining humans as part of, rather than separate from, the natural world. Her projects reconnect people with the everyday beauty of our world and the histories that lie hidden just below its surface. She approaches this work with curiosity and reverence. As the Executive Director of Afro Charities, Wood is creating programming and infrastructure to increase access to the 129-year-old Afro-American Newspapers’ extensive archives. Learn more at www.afrocharities.org .