Nevine Mahmoud's 'Second Nature' at Asia Society Texas

British artist Nevine Mahmoud's exhibition 'Second Nature' is on view at Asia Society Texas Center in Houston until 4 October 2026. The show transforms marble, alabaster, calcite, and glass into uncanny sculptures that blur the boundaries between organic and artificial. Works include oversized melting fruit, luminous children's toys, and twisting mythological figures, installed throughout the institution's public spaces to encourage encounters between architecture and material. Mahmoud's craftsmanship turns traditionally monumental materials into vessels of vulnerability and ambiguity, unsettling distinctions between permanence and fragility.