Willem Vermeersch is a mutidisciplanry Belgian artist, with a Master degrees in Arts at the LUCA school of Ghent (graduation 2010).
Willem Vermeersch's works constitute instinctive responses to the violence of overstimulation, digital absorption and ideal images. With paint, pencil or completely
other means, Willem works his way through diverse bits of reality that we take in, often unconsciously. They are playful and physical ways of processing stimuli in which the personal and common touch each other. Layer after layer everything comes together in the process to form an elaborate choreography, in which conceptions are incessantly absorbed and spat out.
The artist expaining: My works invite You to play with associations and to search for meaning in anything. We need imagination to perceive ourselves in relation to the world, it helps us find our way. However, an overdose of images (labels, meanings and values) projected onto anything or anyone, can generate a vacuum that results into detachment, indifference, loneliness, exhaustion and violence. Think of a person or a group attempting to coincide with an ideal image, while excluding or killing all who do not fit the desired image. Like in relationships, it's important to leave space for the unfulfilled. Art can help us re-member that nobody and nothing coincides with what we imagine. Pictures in our minds and on our screens tend to camouflage the qualities of unruly physical substance. In itself, this substance – where we are made of – is iconoclastic and immune to be ever fully comprehended. Taking a closer look at the visceral qualities of a work of art, while allowing them to overlap and clash with our projections, can evoke a disruptive but wonderful state of aporia.