Laura Gascoigne

Thoroughly unsettling, never simplistic: Mike Nelson – Extinction Beckons, at the Hayward Gallery, reviewed

Many choices confront the curious Alice who dares to plunge down this rabbit hole

One of the many unsettling rabbit holes of ‘The Deliverance and The Patience’, 2001, by Mike Nelson. Credit: Liam Harrison. Courtesy the artist and the Hayward Gallery
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