- Romily Alice Walden’s work is concerned with physicality and its interplay with other social categorisations and power differentials.
- At the core of their practice is an interrogation of embodiment under late stage capitalism.
- Walden’s work questions contemporary western society's relationship with care, tenderness and fragility in relation to our bodies, our communities and our ecosystem.
- Romily is interested in our ability (and failure) to navigate physicality, interdependency and vulnerability both communally and individually.
- How can access remain generative? What are the limits of translation? What can we find at the edges and boundary layers of ability and somatic experience?
- The vulnerability of the body has served as a focus for Walden’s practice since 2017; recent work seeks to disturb overly simplistic understandings of the disabled body, looking to bring an ethic of care, a connection between the land and the body, and a cripped concept of performance into conversation with their work.
- Their practice spans text, printed matter, performance, video and coded arduino control systems, all of which are undertaken with a socially-engaged and research-led working methodology.