“Reality is nothing but your imagination”:

Hans Withoos is fascinated by beauty in all its aspects: the beauty of drama, of the body and of light, as well as the beauty of suffering. The photography of Hans Withoos is set in a world of abundance and artifice, suggesting a certain decadence. It is a world that is both alien and familiar. The figures that crowd his images become archetypes, leaving the viewer with a sense of alienation. His work is multi-layered, with carefully staged images and an idiosyncratic aesthetic. The images sometimes evoke emotions such as suffering, sensuality and oppressiveness; at other times they are deliberately devoid of any emotion at all.