Romily Alice Walden “The Split Is Vividly Revealed”

New York Art Residency & Studios Foundation (NARS)

[Photo credit: Janna Dyk]

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The Split Is Vividly Revealed presents new work by transdisciplinary artist Romily Alice Walden: The public world is the world of strength, the positive (valued) body, performance and production, the able-bodied and youth. Weakness, illness, rest and recovery, pain, death and the negative (de-valued) body are private, generally hidden, and often neglected. Coming into the public world with illness, pain or a de-valued body, we encounter resistance to splitting the two worlds; the split is vividly revealed. Wendell, S. (2006). Toward a Feminist Theory of Disability. In: L. Davis, ed., The Disability Studies Reader, 2nd ed. London: Routledge, pp.243-256.