Everything that Thibaut Henz photographs bears witness to physicality or to physical closeness, to a connection to things, society and its physiology. Regardless of whether he photographs the human body, animals, plants, spaces, or objects, Henz approaches his motifs in an exploratory movement — not in a reserved way but instead aggressively, observing the subject close up, in extreme cases, even as far as body orifices.
Rather than fulfilling a representational function, Henz’s photographs, often dyptichs, tryptichs or large scale compositions, illustrate the present as a contingency, reflected in coexisting realities, challenging the viewers to consider their own biases and referential contexts, through fantasised violence.
