Twenty three pieces dating 2008 to 2011, all hung in a single dark room, white borders glowing palely all around - a mix of naked adolescents, dramatically twilit landscape, and sculpture and other art amidst viewers, emerging against darkness with pale and sometimes golden glow.
I've sometimes wondered whether the attraction to Henson is primarily aesthetic - residing in his emotional sensibility and the way it mingles the beautiful and the sublime in a nocturnal palate. This exhibition hasn't particularly helped me in resolving that question, except by producing the thought that, maybe, so deep is the effect that he has that there must be something more profound to it, something more essential - in the sense of being of the essence - however it's produced.
I've sometimes wondered whether the attraction to Henson is primarily aesthetic - residing in his emotional sensibility and the way it mingles the beautiful and the sublime in a nocturnal palate. This exhibition hasn't particularly helped me in resolving that question, except by producing the thought that, maybe, so deep is the effect that he has that there must be something more profound to it, something more essential - in the sense of being of the essence - however it's produced.
