Sharmila Wood is an Independent Curator who works at the intersection of social change, history, and ecology in design and art.
Notes for Tomorrow - Humber Galleries at Humber College, Toronto Canada Jan 16, 2023 – Apr 7, 2023
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Notes for Tomorrow - Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, SUNY New Paltz, New York Jun 17, 2023 – Nov 12, 2023
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Actions for the Earth - The Contemporary at Blue Star Galleries Jun 2, 2023 – Sep 3, 2023 SAN ANTONIO, TX, USA
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Coming Soon - Super Future
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Notes for Tomorrow - Humber Galleries at Humber College, Toronto Canada Jan 16, 2023 – Apr 7, 2023 ● Notes for Tomorrow - Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, SUNY New Paltz, New York Jun 17, 2023 – Nov 12, 2023 ● Actions for the Earth - The Contemporary at Blue Star Galleries Jun 2, 2023 – Sep 3, 2023 SAN ANTONIO, TX, USA ● Coming Soon - Super Future ●
CURRENT PROJECTS
Language of Orchids
An iterative project, the Language of Orchids is a collection of photographs and text that expands from a family album of Singapore in the 50s- 70s. The first chapter of Language of Orchids is in partnership with Mok Zining whose collection of poetry, The Orchid Folios reimagines the orchid as a living, breathing document of history: a history that enmeshes the personal, colonial, linguistic, and biotechnological with the Vanda Miss Joaquim, the symbol of Singapore’s postcolonial hybridity. The lecture/talk is in the programme of the Perth Writers Festival and in partnership with the Centre for Stories.
If care is to become the basis of a better society and world, we need to change our contemporary hierarchies of care in the direction of radical egalitarianism. All forms of care between all categories of human and non-human should be valued, recognised and resourced equally, according to their needs or ongoing sustainability. -The Care Manifesto: The Politics of Independence
Pre-pandemic Sharmila spent time on an Asialink Residency to Singapore. Sharmila partnered with the National Archives of Singapore, the image collections at the National Library of Singapore, and the archives of photographic studio G.R. Lambert and Co. She recently has also engaged with the Singapore Botanic Gardens team of botanists. The project explores themes around interconnections between environs and networks of care and community through re-presenting photography and the orchid within the social relations of family, home and history.
Actions for the Earth: Art, Care & Ecology
Actions for the Earth: Art, Care & Ecology is a traveling exhibition that considers kinship, healing, and restorative interventions as artistic practices and strategies to foster a deeper consciousness of our interconnectedness with the earth. Actions for the Earth is a resource for current times, reminding us that we are connected within a constellation of living networks, inseparable from the earth. The exhibition emphasizes learning, care, and intimacy, inviting its publics to participate in instruction-based meditation and deep listening among other actions. During the tour, projects will generate site-specific exchanges between the artists, the environment, and local communities, growing and changing over time.
Artists: Ackroyd and Harvey, Lhola Amira, Arahmaiani, Sayan Chanda, Hylozoic/Desires (Himali Singh Soin & David Soin Tappeser), lololol, Ana Mendieta, Zarina Muhammad, Patrina Mununggurr, Pauline Oliveros, Yoko Ono, Tabita Rezaire, Mithu Sen, Cecilia Vicuña, Katie West, and Zheng Bo.
