CORPUS is thrilled to announce ‘for fragile insides’, CJ Mahony's first solo exhibtion at the gallery. The exhibition will open on Saturday 14th November: 4–7pm and will continue until Saturday 19th December.

CJ Mahony’s practice invites confusion between objects and bodies, exploring abstraction as a process of representation and a means of testing the limits of what can be made visible. Working predominantly with industrial materials, Mahony subjects plasterboard to processes of pressure and transformation, producing works that appear at once architectural and bodily.

The work presents a complex image of both exerting and withstanding force. Materials are pushed towards the limits of their structural integrity: surfaces buckle, split and open, recording the pressure applied to them while simultaneously resisting total collapse. These labour-intensive and iconoclastic gestures give the works an ambiguous physicality, suggestive of skin, wounds, apertures or thresholds without resolving themselves into any single image or form. Reflective and dichroic films complicate this encounter further. Ruptured surfaces both reflect and obscure the viewer, projecting light outwards while absorbing and fragmenting what appears before them. Visibility becomes unstable and contingent, shifting according to the angle of approach, the movement of light and the surrounding architecture.