Robert Bean: Lapsus

What remains after the business meeting, to be swept away into the wastebasket? Twisted paper clips, the odd note, doodles. For a number of years, photographer Robert Bean has been collecting small lost or forgotten objects such as these (partial lists on scraps of paper, a creased photograph, the detritus of the office and the street). For his series Lapsus, Bean has photographed a selection of these tiny, ephemeral items. Massively enlarged and carefully framed, each once forlorn item adopts an iconic presence, gesturing from the wall with newfound authority and speaking cryptically about the human activity of which it is the residue.