Avril Corroon

Avril Corroon works with sculpture, installation, moving image, performance, and social practice to explore situations and sites, especially cities, where precarious conditions and neoliberal ideology have become everyday. Her work examines inequity and how architecture manifests governance. She has made cheese from toxic mould, collected 1800L of dehumidifier water and performed on a city rooftop as the Airbnb logo.

Recently, Corroon has focused a scope on housing crisis's and the resulting acceptance of bleak living conditions such as damp and toxic mould. She collects and uses materials that hold distinct relations to these issues and transforms them through juxtaposition, absurdist narratives, or by reframing their value to create an exchange.

For her last major work Got Damp, Corroon worked with members of a housing union as well as the wider public in Dublin and London to create an exchange system for harvesting damp and collecting stories, circulating back evidence for claims with thermal imagery, equipment (dehumidifiers), and fees. This process of creating alternative artistic exchange is a spirit and unionised method she is currently working to progress further.