Sarah Wood

She is a writer, curator and filmmaker. Her work focuses on the found object as an act of reclamation and reinterrogation, and also on the documentary image as a tool for reflecting on the relationship between the telling of history and individual memory. Wood has also been interested in the meaning of the archive and, in particular, in the politics of memory, asking why some objects are preserved and others ignored, and why preservation takes place at particular historical moments. Her recent works include Here is Elsewhere (2020), a short film that reflects on how isolation in times of pandemic has made the human mind find tools to travel without leaving home, or Correspondence (2020), another short film built from archival images, in which she reflects on the role played by the place of exhibition of art at a time of social isolation. Wood has also written articles and essays. Her book Civilisation & Its Malcontents (Ma Bibliotheque, 2017) asks in what ways we can continue thinking in a world that asks us at all levels to do so. The author makes a freudian reading from our century, updating Freud's conception of civilization with considerations on algorithms, automation, Brexit or border controls. Wood has also co-founded, together with Selina Robertson, the Club des Femmes, a feminine space for the revision of ideas through art.