Beaufour is also fond of juxtaposing the human with the animal: seeking counterpoints that allow us to better understand ourselves, thus illustrating metamorphoses between species and the anthropomorphisms that characterise the porosity of living categories within our ‘civilisation’. His expressionism is uncompromising, limitless, and pushes the boundaries of good taste, neither presupposing critical reception nor following the crowd with respect to contemporary narratives. It is through a free and obsessive protocol, through archetypal schemas of confinement that, though circular, still produce a veritable corpus of vibrant beings, that Beaufour creates his considerable gallery of characters. His characters are transfigured within a universal mythology, one shaped by his deep cultural immersion. When viewers dare to confront the irony and discomfort that so often emanate from Henri Beaufour’s works, they are struck by his alternative perspective and singular ‘composition’ of the world—a powerful, intuitive vision of our times.