Submitted by M.L. R. Grove on Wed, 24/09/2025 - 11:54
The exhibition is entitled Corsio: Sink and Stick in a Bog and will take place from 22 October – 22 November 2025.
Manon Awst’s CORSIO is a culmination of four years’ sculptural research on Welsh peatland.
The verb corsio is formed from the Welsh word for bog – cors – meaning to sink and stick in a bog. This is an apt title for an exhibition which proposes ways of sinking deep into the materiality of landscape and explores how sculptural works stick to ecologies over time. The word is also associated with ‘becoming looser’, which connects to the artist’s playful collaboration with the sites and their materials.
The exhibition includes film, sculptural props, poems and samples that give form to rooted research and reflection on the alkaline fens of Anglesey and the quaking bogs of Eifionydd and Crymlyn, Swansea. Through performative investigations and material compositing, Awst embraces peat as a deep, situated ground with the potential to deconstruct boundaries between what is solid/fluid, wet/dry, dead/alive, stable/precarious, human/more-than-human.
Find out more here: Corsio - Manon Awst
