With his Feel Free project, started in 2011, Vinz affirms that human nakedness is an important aspect of naturalness and personal freedom. Each of his characters is symbolic, like a kind of fable. Thus naked people with bird heads represent freedom, policemen with lizard heads oppression, fish with striped bathing suits excessive consumption, and the minotaur resistance. The Feel Free artworks combine photographic collages for the bodies along with detailed painting of the heads and other additions, suggesting the intertwining of real worlds and dream worlds.
The animal and bird heads are a defining aspect of Vinz’s Feel Free work, and he explains that the models he has photographed for the project have been grateful not to appear with their faces. For them, he says, ‘it has been a liberation, one they have all repeated or wanted to repeat’. Anonymity, just as he hides his own his face and full name, generates a confidence and respect which is central to his work.
Artworks from the Feel Free project have been exhibited in many galleries in Europe and the United States, including the Jonathan Levine Gallery, New York (2012) , the Inoperable Gallery, Vienna, (2012), Galerie Ernst Hilger, Vienna (2013) , CAVE Gallery, Los Angeles (2014) , Soon Galerie, Bern (2018), and Soon Galerie, Zürich (2022).