Nackt

Janine Henkes works in this space where vulnerability stops being a performance and becomes architectural. Her practice—drawing, sculpture, installation, the usual polymathy—keeps coming back to exposure, to the body and its refusal to be anything other than itself. There’s no coyness in it. No rhetorical nakedness. Just the thing as it is, stripped of whatever narrative you wanted to hang on it. It’s the kind of work that makes you aware of how much you’re used to art keeping its clothes on, how much distance we’ve trained ourselves to expect. She doesn’t give you that distance.