Mentioned in The Age’s best exhibitions to catch in 2026, “TarraWarra International 2026: System Release” opens this Saturday at TarraWarra Museum of Art.
Marco Fusinato, DESASTRES, 2024, © Courtesy of the artist and PALAS, Sydney
The retrospective presents the work of ten artists from Australia, Aotearoa/New Zealand, and Mexico who engage with the chaos of global precarity to create new systems of order across a wide range of media. The exhibition proposes a different understanding of order as a kind of friendship with chaos, presenting personal and collective strategies for making sense of a rapidly changing world. Three Australian Aboriginal artists, Daniel Boyd, Francis Carmody, and Megan Cope, will present their artworks.
Nicholas Mangan 04, A World Undone, 2012, © Courtesy of the Artist and MCA Sydney
Curated by Dr Emily Cormack (Aotearoa/New Zealand and Naarm/Melbourne), who was appointed Head of Exhibitions and Programs at TarraWarra in April 2025, the exhibition invites audiences to consider alternative systems of knowledge and ways of being, grounded in First Nations thinking, posthumanism, collective intelligence and more-than-human worldviews.