Deconstructing a Mountain (2023-2026)

Focusing on the extraction of rock from a mountain shaped over hundreds of millions of years, McCann explores the tension between geological time and human labour. His photographs reveal the layers, cuts and traces left by quarrying, while also turning attention to the workers who shape the landscape, many of whom have travelled from Lithuania.

Connecting this remote Atlantic site to wider histories of migration, labour and the movement of skills across Europe, Deconstructing a Mountain considers photography and quarrying as parallel acts of selection and revelation, inviting us to see landscape not as fixed, but as something continually made and remade.