artist/ Levalet

France

Charles Leval, known as Levalet, was born in Epinal in 1988. He grew up in Guadeloupe, where he first came into contact with urban culture, then with the plastic arts. He went on to study visual arts in Strasbourg, where his work, which at the time focused more on video, was nourished by assiduous theatrical practice.
Levalet’s work is primarily concerned with drawing and installation. He places his ink-drawn characters in public spaces, in a game of visual and semantic dialogue with the present environment. The characters interact with the architecture and unfold in situations that often verge on the absurd.