“As a queer, disabled artist Romily Alice Walden interrogates issues of gender, ‘othered’ bodies and what they term the ‘IRL/URL’ context of our lived experience, both online and in the physical realm,” wrote Holly Black of the British artist for Elephant’s Artists To Watch column last year. Walden rose to fame with a number of captivating installations featuring neon nudes. Here, three such headless figures were presented in “a mock utopia” to explore “the early cyber-feminist hopes of the internet as a genderless, bodiless utopia”. The aim, Walden explained, was to prompt viewers to interrogate “the effect of digital/physical divide on how we understand and view sexualised and gendered bodies” on and offline.
