TAPIR

April Widdup
SYSTEMA PHILOSOPHICUM

Opening January 18th 5-8pm
Show January 19th- February 28th
Open Sat/Su 4-6pm and by appointmentgallery

Curated by .goerner

In Systema Philosophicum, Widdup subverts the visual language of taxonomical graphs—functional diagrams traditionally rooted in fact and scientific classification. These charts, trusted tools for understanding and organising our world, become a playful and thought-provoking medium for addressing existential questions at the core of human experience: Are humans inherently violent? Is truth absolute? Is there an afterlife? Is time a construct?

April Widdup is an early-career multidisciplinary artist from Australia, currently based in Germany. A graduate of the Australian National University School of Art and Design (2022) with a Bachelor of Visual Arts majoring in glass, Widdup’s practice spans sculpture, installation, video, and audio. Navigating a tonal spectrum from playful to serious, Widdup creates works that invite audiences into a dialogue about the human condition. Themes of identity, mobility, memory, phenomenology, power and control emerge as recurring threads. By examining how we engage with the natural and built environments, and how societal constructs inform our understanding of life and death, Widdup’s practice illuminates the tension between individual agency and collective structures.

Jacqueline Huskisson
RETENTION

Opening
Thursday, November 14th 6-9pm

6.30pm
Takt Talk Battle
with the current artists in residence at TAKT BERLIN LEIPZIG ZEITZ Jacqueline Huskisson and April Widdup

Show
November 15th- 29th 2024
Open
Sa/Su 3-6pm and by appointment

Jacqueline Huskisson is a visual artist from Calgary, Alberta Canada and currently living between Calgary and Berlin, Germany. In 2011 she received a BFA in print media from the Alberta College of Art and Design (Now AU Arts.) In 2017 she received an MFA in studio arts from the Belfast School of Art in Northern Ireland. She works primarily with printmaking, painting, comics, and media arts. She considers herself a “comic” artist. Majority of her practice relies on narratives, abstract or linear. She focuses on telling narratives of the human body, illness, and the human form’s relation to its surroundings.

Jacqueline Huskisson’s work explores the delicate interplay between memory, emotion, and identity through mixed media and collage. Her art is a journey through fragments-layering personal history, found objects, and visual elements into evocative compositions. Each piece feels like a reconstruction of a dream, inviting viewers to explore what is remembered, forgotten, and to re-imagine.

In this exhibition her artwork invites you to step into a space where memory becomes tactile- a place where the familiar and the surreal meet. Evoking emotions that linger just beneath the surface.