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.

Can u light a candle for the living? 2025

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

Moore Street, 2025

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