Weekend Portfolio: Jonathan LLense

Images and text by Jonathan LLense

Jonathan LLense’s process is shaped by daily walks through the city. Guided by a first intuition, he plays with his environment combining already-there elements in order to implement a new and playful perception.

In its work, urban and private spaces appears to be inexhaustible source of inspiration and discovery. Jonathan LLense identifies visual systems, default forms, arrangements and DIY, where the power of evocation that they contain is due to the recurrence of compositions and gestures and which he subsequently makes interact with his surroundings. His pictures are mostly presenting people and objects in odd configurations and situations, staged and constructed in a direct dialogue to his daily experience. Bodies, trivial and scrap, natural or industrial elements, suddenly become the subject of a game of formal associations, semantic shifts, two dimensions or three dimensions collages, which are photographed and shown for themselves in the exhibition space.

Within these archaic gestures, these vernacular detournements, Jonathan LLense restores all the theatricality of everyday space altered by its users. He is offering a amused look about things around us, about these every

Jonathan LLense is a contemporary photographer and visual artist. He was born in 1984 in Lille in the North of France. He graduated from the École Supérieure des Beaux-arts de Valenciennes (FR) in 2010, and from the National School of Photography of Arles (FR) in 2013. He is represented by the Geneva gallery Espace Jörg Brockmann (CH) and TheLink Mgmt in Paris (FR)

More of Jonathan LLense ’s work can be found on his website.