Jesse Willems

About Jesse Willems

Jesse Willems is a Belgian contemporary artist. He uses his street photography as a base for complex collages, often provoking contemplation and silence. By wrapping photographic prints in the most wonderful paper (often scored from forgotten archives and old stationery shops), he draws our attention to what is often overlooked. By eliminating any superfluous elements, and consciously leaving out all too recognizable items such as letters and symbols, Jesse frees the composition from a limited reading. In recent years, he has evolved towards a restrained style, deriving abstraction from reality. Jesse’s work is in the collections of the Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Verbeke foundation, private collections in Europe, Asia and the US, and has appeared in publications such as Billboard magazine (US), The New York Times (US), The Times (UK), De volkskrant (NL), ...

Born in 1984.