Jesse Willems, The queen and the soldier, 2026 - Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Clémentine de la Féronnière.
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Macchia
04/06/2026 - 01/08/2026
Galerie Clémentine de la Féronnière
51, rue saint-Louis-en-l’île,
75004 Paris
https://www.galerieclementinedelaferonniere.fr/exhibitions/60-macchia-jesse-willems/
Macchia — the Italian word for "stain" or "spot" — refers to an art theory developed by the Neapolitan critic Vittorio Imbriani and revisited by writer and photographer Teju Cole in his essay Google's Macchia (2013). Macchia describes the total effect an image has on the viewer in the split second before interpretation begins: what we feel before we understand what we are looking at. It is precisely within this space that Jesse Willems' work operates. By cutting apart and recomposing fragments of the visible world, he seeks to reach that moment before meaning emerges, where form and colour alone take effect.
The exhibition Macchia brings together around twelve new and unique works from the artist's most recent body of work.
04/06/2026 - 01/08/2026
Galerie Clémentine de la Féronnière
51, rue saint-Louis-en-l’île,
75004 Paris
https://www.galerieclementinedelaferonniere.fr/exhibitions/60-macchia-jesse-willems/
Macchia — the Italian word for "stain" or "spot" — refers to an art theory developed by the Neapolitan critic Vittorio Imbriani and revisited by writer and photographer Teju Cole in his essay Google's Macchia (2013). Macchia describes the total effect an image has on the viewer in the split second before interpretation begins: what we feel before we understand what we are looking at. It is precisely within this space that Jesse Willems' work operates. By cutting apart and recomposing fragments of the visible world, he seeks to reach that moment before meaning emerges, where form and colour alone take effect.
The exhibition Macchia brings together around twelve new and unique works from the artist's most recent body of work.