Boxed In Series
April Widdup’s free standing forms are an exploration into the power spatial design and coding has in relation to how we physically engage with the environments we occupy. Spatial coding operates to regulate and direct interactions and behaviour, often causing bodies that exist outside the ‘norm’ to feel vulnerability, discomfort, and the social pressure to conform. Through form and display, Widdup calls attention to this and asks the viewer to lend themselves to the experience of minority bodies in space through both physically and intellectually engaging with the works.
April Widdup, Day Dreaming, 2023, Mirror, lights, mdf, wood, pvc pipe, turn table, 40.5 x 35.5 x 70.5 cm
April Widdup, Perspective , 2023, Glass, tv monitor, mdf, wood, 40.5 x 35.5 x 70.5 cm
April Widdup, 2023, Second Thought, Wood, mdf, mirror, lights, glass, 32 x 53 x 39.5 cm
April Widdup, Transpire, 2022, Glass, lights, wood, mdf, 57 x 44.3 x 45.7 cm
April Widdup, Internalised Desire, 2022, Screen-printed glass, lights, mdf, paper, wire, wood, 49.5 x 47.7 x 48.5 cm
April Widdup, Projected Power, 2022, Mirror, lights, mdf, wood, 80.2 x 22.5 x 25 cm
April Widdup, 2022, Am I?, Glass, mirror film, mirror, lights, mdf, wood, 30.3 x 22.5 x 22.4 cm
April Widdup, come inside me, 2022, lights, mdf, wood
