Episodes 2005-

Episodes are different cinematographic photo stories where the author borrows the images from b-movies, the quality of trash cinema and the medium of comics. Based on cliche plots about love and hate, good and bad, sex and violence Balcus plays with these opposite stereotypes by switching and mixing identities and disturbing the conventional narrative.

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Myself, Friends, Lovers and Others 2000-2004

Using the aesthetics of snapshot photography Balcus merges the border between public and private. Casually posed portraits, still-lifes, and above all images of sex, are shot as it were 'from the hip'. Highly intimate photographs explore, analyse and celebrate the "snapshot culture" which, as the critic Hanno Soans has pointed out, is now a part of urban communications.

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Temporary images series 1999

The series were especially produced for the group show "Can You Hear Me?" (touring around North Europe in 1999-2001) and consist of eight gelatin silver prints sized 90X60cm. In this series Balcus play different characters of popular culture referring to the work of Cindy Sherman and Robert Mapplethorpe.

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Young People Portraits 1993-1996

The early portraits of friends and passers-by formed the first solo exhibition of the artist back in 1996.

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Self-portraits 1993-1998

These black and white gelatin silver prints of the artist's early years are sensuous studies of identity, using a role play and masquerade as a part of scene designing. A selection of these self-portraits are available in the artist's book entitled Desire to be Adored. See information in Publications section.

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