FEELS LIKE SUMMER by Yewande Kotun Davis

Artist Residency — January 3-February 22, 2025

Yewande will use her time as the 2025 CHAW Resident Artist to develop a new body of work, titled “Feels Like Summer.” Inspired by the work of authors, Nayyirah Waheed, Tricia Hersey, and EbonyJanice Moore, among others, this body of work will expand on Yewande’s social practice rooted in community care, and is in many ways, a response to the palpable collective grief and heaviness that has overtaken her and our daily lives. Through narrative portraiture, contemporary still life-like imagery, and curated micro-installations, Yewande invites viewers to slow down, embrace the lightness of summer as a feeling rather than a season, and imagine a world where our bodies— her body— can finally embrace rest, ease, joy, and play.