MATT HENRY (England, 1978). "Alabama's Here-Twin Palms," 2017. Archival pigment print, specimen 1/6. Museum glass. Measurements: 50 x 76 cm; 55.5 x 81 cm (frame). Matt Henry performs narratives of cinematic aesthetics in color from a series of staged photographs inspired by 1960s America. In the artist's own words, "I remember this era as a curiosity of magical beings that pranced and glowed on television reruns on the days I was out of school ... Staging photographic narratives is very much like psychodrama; a way of exploring the virtues and hopes, the flaws and fears, that bring us close to the shores of utopia and then cruelly pull us back. To reimagine is to step out of history and into potentiality, and it is here that my photographs exist, not as death masks of a lost era, but as narrative bridges to a new one. British photographer, lives and works in Brighton. He graduated from Nottingham with a degree in political science, after which he turned towards photographic art. In 2014, he completed an MA in photography at the University of Brighton. Selection of recent solo exhibitions: 2025 'Palms', Polka Galerie, Paris, France 2018 'Southern Gothic and other Tales', Polka Galerie, Paris, France 2016 'The Journey', Polka Galerie, Paris, France. Recent group exhibitions: 2023 'Photography: Real and Imagined', NGV, Melbourne, Australia 2023 'Esprit Pop es-tu là ?', Franciscaines de Deauville, France. We the People', The Billboard Creative, Los Angeles CA, USA. 'Artists' Open Houses', Brighton and Hove, UK. 2020 "No Dead Artists," Jonathan Ferrara Gallery, New Orleans LA, USA "The Days that Follow," Polka Galerie, Paris, France 2017 "Bling Bling Baby!", NRW-Forum, Düsseldorf, Germany. Paris Photo, The Grand Palais, Paris, France. Photo London, Somerset House, London, UK. Collections: National Gallery of Victoria (NGV), Melbourne, Australia. Sondra Gilman and Celso Gonzalez-Falla Collection, New York, USA.