Adèle Aproh: Performance Canelled — Exhibition Walkthrough
Performance Cancelled, Adèle Aproh’s second solo exhibition at Scroll Gallery, stages the preparation scenes before a performance that will never occur. Aproh is drawn to the fleeting moments before an event, drawing her figures in the process of transformation without a clear indication of what they are preparing for. In her work, Aproh pulls fashion and runway archives, graphic novels, films, and other artworks into personal and narrative dialogues. Performance Cancelled speaks about women’s bodies, their femininity, and therefore the artist’s own. Working in her largest scale to date, Aproh works over long periods of time, allowing for shifting and layered interpretations. Aproh states, “The performance suggested by the title never happens. It remains suspended. What becomes visible instead is the work that precedes it: the contained tension, the act of construction. The backstage takes center stage. If there is a spectacle, it exists precisely there.”
About the Artist
Adèle Aproh (b. 1996) currently lives and works in Paris, France. She has exhibited with MXM Galeria, Madrid; IRL Gallery, New York; The Hole, New York; ATLA, Los Angeles; Saatchi Gallery, London; Moosey Art, London; Delphia Gallery, Charantes; MIMA Museum, Brussels, among others. Aproh was the Innovate Grant Summer Recipient in 2023 and participated in the Mack Art Foundation residency in 2025. Her work has been published in Harper’s Magazine, ArtMaze Magazine, Booooooom, The Drawing Stall, Civil Art Publishing, Odalïsque Magazine, and Doxy Magazine, among others. Aproh is represented by Scroll.
About the Gallery
Founded in New York in 2022, Scroll is a contemporary art gallery focused on fostering community and uplifting emerging and early-career artists from across the globe.
During its first three years, Scroll presented solo and group exhibitions on Walker Street in Tribeca, before moving to its current location at 291 Grand Street in the heart of Chinatown / Lower East Side at the beginning of 2026.
Scroll currently represents Daniel Um (born in Seoul, based in New York City); Adèle Aproh (born and based in Paris); Nick Hobbs (born in Shreveport, Louisiana, based in New York City); Cody Heichel (based in Cleveland, Ohio); and Nastaran Shahbazi (born in Tehran, based in Paris).
Time: 2:00 pm EST
Free!
