A World Undone
Museum of Contemporary Art Australia

In a public conversation accompanying Nicholas Mangan’s comprehensive survey, underwater anthropologist Cameron Allan McKean described coral as a crucible for how thought in the 21st century might be articulated, transforming the ways we make sense of the world. Two decades of Mangan’s expanded sculptural practice similarly invited an undoing and a recomposing of who we are, in relation to each other and to the myriad other beings we share worlds with.