Scrims (2025) Angela Henderson and Robert Bean
Scrim(s) is an exhibition developed in collaboration with Robert Bean that considers perception as something contingent, layered, and subject to shift. Taking its name from the theatrical scrim—a surface that is both reflective and transparent—the work examines how images appear, dissolve, and re-form depending on conditions of light, attention, and position.
Across drawing and photographic processes, forms emerge gradually, often at the threshold of visibility. What first appears as absence or opacity gives way, through sustained looking, to figures that reveal themselves in time. Positioned within a shared inquiry into poetic ecology and the more-than-human world, Scrim(s) approaches making as a process of following rather than directing. In this space, perception becomes relational, and meaning is not resolved but continually re-formed.