Cavity
Andrew Kernan
May 6 — May 31
2025
Port, 2025
iPhone video and digital painting and rendering
4:57 min
The hidden networks of the city—its underground passages and forgotten cavities—arteries of life. These unseen spaces, like the body itself, function both as conduits for movement and as places where things are lost and found. Like the looping video of the Dublin Port Tunnel, these systems of passage—be it through the body, the city, or history—are not linear. They are cyclical, repetitive, never quite arriving at a destination, always looping back into the void, much like the act of excavation itself. History, like a drain or a cavity, is never fully emptied. It continually accumulates, decays, and re-emerges.
In this work, being highlighted is the tension between the visibility of spectacle and the invisibility of decay; between the polished, hyper-visible surface of the world and the overlooked, decaying underbelly that sustains it.
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Aerosol, acrylic and plastic badge on porcelain with anodised aluminium framing
120 x 90cm
River liffer, 2025
Blue glue, acrylic, aerosol on weathered felt with anodised aluminium framing
120 x 90cm
Bone t00thbrush, 2025
Polychromo, inkjet, paper, rusted glasswash tray
50 x 50cm
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Acrylic and aerosol on board
58 x 57cm
The eight of a memory: the price of storage, 2025
grit bin lid, dust, dirt
50 x 70cm
Cavity, 2025
Pencil, ink, acrylic, paper, plastic with aluminium framing
34 x 25cm