Henter Csaba, artist, individual web-site: https://www.henter.hu/

Dance Fragments

My paintings are very colorful, but in photography I have always been drawn to black and white. I went to Mexico City for a color therapy session with IPS Berlin, hoping that the bright colors of the city would change my more somber style. First I came to the Plaza de la Ciudadela searching for colors. What I found was not a spectacle but a gathering—where strangers became companions, and companions became friends.
Amid shifting colors and fading rhythms, faces appeared like memories. Stories began to take form. What began as a fleeting impression slowly crystallized into intimacy: a rhythm shared with strangers who no longer felt like strangers. That was the magic of the Plaza de la Ciudadela—where time seemed to dance, and connection pulsed just beneath the surface.
These photographs are about a beauty that does not announce itself, but gathers quietly—like sunlight spilling across the City.

Anamnesis

My mother died at the end of November 2023; she was very ill, she had cancer. Was in a semi-comatose state for over a month.
I was able to be with her during her last days. The many little truths I ever believed in brought me no comfort: I had lost her. Most of the photographs were taken during this period and the year that followed; only a few come from earlier years, like echoes of a lost time. I tried to free myself from the weight of the pain by taking long walks and by creating Anamnesis.

Publishing the book became a burning desire - an attempt to give visible form to my suffering, so that the loss might be easier to bear. The book has become a key object of memory, of filial mourning, a tangible thing you can hold in your hand. Without even opening it, it awakens in me everything that seemed lost.
Now, when I travel with my mother’s spirit in mind, I smell the scent of acacia flowers.