We’ve Always Had Our Ways
Catalog essay for the exhibition Jody Wood: Social Pharmacy, 2022
Skövde Art Museum, Skövde, Sweden
Edited by Mette Muhli
Jody Wood’s exhibition at the Skövde Art Museum will coincide with the two-year mark of the coronavirus pandemic. To date, some 5.3 million people globally have lost their lives. Even more of us have lost friends and family. In this new version of the world, we no longer track time by days or months but by variants. As I write this, Omicron has started to make itself known, threatening to send another wave of grief across the globe. Grief is always a catalyst for looking — looking for deficits in our social systems, looking carefully at our relationships, looking for someone to blame, looking for ways to spare ourselves pain in the future. What is clear now, as in any crisis, is that we need to look closely at how we can better show up for each other.
