B. 1998, Mbandaka, D.R. Congo.
Lives and works in Brussels, Belgium.
William Finken's practice is built on the tension between formal control and psychological exposure. Drawing from cinema, literature and music. particularly interested in the uncanny precision of Kafka and the sensory weight of Murakami, he constructs images where the ordinary becomes a site of inheritance, ritual and unresolved feeling.
Finken approaches the photograph as evidence of something that resists being named. His work moves away from documentary toward a sustained investigation of the interior, where staged portraits, fetish objects and found fragments assemble into constellations that implicate the viewer without explaining themselves. Each image withholds as much as it reveals.
His practice spans portraiture, installation and text. Across his bodies of work he examines the transmission of masculinity and its damage, the collapse of intimacy and what it leaves in a child, the instability of memory and identity, and the colonial architectures still embedded in the city he inhabits. His images do not describe. They hold a pressure that was already there.
Group Exhibitions
-2024
" Repotting Roots " Nightwatch, FOMU, Antwerp, Belgium
-2023
" Release " Mino Art Space, Antwerp, Belgium
" Blue print : A Hip-Hop festival " De Singel, Antwerp, Belgium
-2020
" The eyes only " CDL, First edition, Bruxelles, Belgium