Thrashed Times
2024 - Present


Thrashed Times is an ongoing series of abstract paintings on polyurethane laminate reflecting on states of sociopolitical instability and psychological unease. Composed through irregular forms, fragmented structures, and layered gestures, the works construct unstable visual terrains that oscillate between tension and collapse.
 

Working with the synthetic and industrial surface of polyurethane laminate, Mark Mangion employs staining, abrasion, translucency, and fluid mark-making to create paintings that appear simultaneously fragile and resistant. The irregular forms drift between abstraction and suggestion, evoking fractured landscapes, bodily traces, architectural remnants, or shifting emotional states without settling into fixed representation.
 

The paintings function as atmospheric responses to contemporary conditions, reflecting on uncertainty, alienation, precarity, and the psychological weight of turbulent political and social realities. Through their material instability and spatial ambiguity, the works propose a space where gesture, surface, and form become carriers of tension, vulnerability, and unresolved experience.