Overview
126 Artist – Run Gallery & Studios proudly presents Pry, a solo show by Avril Corroon. This exhibition presents a new body of sculptural works combining dehumidifier water collected from households affected by damp, as well as hand forged metal works.
Corroon’s sculptural works interrogate ideas around wealth, power disparity and otherness from the things that sustain us. The concept of a failing system becomes a focal point for the exhibition, where the labour and lives of the many sustain the few. Through her work, the audience is invited to question the slow violence and erosion of a system under pressure; what is valued and praised and its impact on our bodies, infrastructure and communities.
The normalisation of precarity and the insecurity surrounding living standards is the experience of many in Ireland. This vulnerability becomes visible through the emergence of damp; a slow violence against the body. Its imperceptibility makes it easy for those responsible to ignore.
Pry questions the boundaries of art making as an act of collaboration and exchange. What tools can be activated to disassemble and prepare our bodies to collectivise, unionise and challenge the infrastructural relationships that keep us disempowered and reliant on a failing system? Through a collaborative workshop with CATU Galway and Cairde Community Training on the 6th of June 2026, these tools will be activated.
Exhibition Launch: Friday 05th June 6pm.
Workshop with CATU & Cairde Community Training : 06th June 2026 11:00pm – 16:00pm
Open Wednesday – Sunday, 12 – 6pm, until 28th June 2026.
Curated by Ciara Corscadden Hennessy
Avril Corroon:
Avril Corroon is a visual artist from County Westmeath.She works with sculpture, installation, moving-image, performance, and social practice. Her work examines inequity and how architecture manifests governance and gaps for resistance. Recurringly she forms exchanges with tenants, workers and unionised groups collecting materials that hold distinct relations to lived conditions, health and the body. She has made cheese from toxic mould, collected 1800L of dehumidifier water from 55 households, made ink from blight infected potato leaves and performed on a city rooftop as the Airbnb logo.
