Thin Places: Thresholds of Transmission

 Thin Places: Thresholds of Transmission 

September 15 – December 12, 2026 

Emerson Contemporary, Media Art Gallery, Boston, MA 

Thin Places: Thresholds of Transmission brings together works by Beatrice Glow, Megan and Murray McMillan, and Sabrina Ratté that explore the unstable boundaries between objecthood and atmosphere, embodiment and mediation, material presence and ephemeral experience. Across sculpture, moving image, and installation the exhibition considers how contemporary artistic practices are shaped by forms of ecological, technological, cosmic, and sensory transmission that exceed fixed or stable material states. 

The artists included in the exhibition approach matter not as static substance, but as dynamic process: something continuously shifting across thresholds of visibility, perception, and relation. Astrophysical systems, environmental histories, speculative fictions and digital simulations become intertwined fields through which viewers encounter forms that are at once tactile and immaterial, intimate and planetary. Across the exhibition, distinctions between the virtual and the physical, the speculative and the real, are in doubt. 

Beatrice Glow’s materially grounded installations trace the movement of cultural, ecological, and historical forces across global systems of exchange, connecting sensory experience with environmental transformation. Megan and Murray McMillan’s sculptural and video-practice translates cosmic and environmental phenomena into embodied spatial encounters, activating relationships between gravity, light, perception and physical forms. Sabrina Ratté’s speculative digital environments imagine hybrid ecologies in which technological systems and organic forms merge into continuously evolving atmospheric worlds.