Levalet: Concrete Jungle

Today, many of us share the same global awareness of our way of living in the world and of living together. Urbanisation has shown its limits, in the absurd opposition of the solitude of the confined human being to the density of the urban population. In the same way, we are seeking to reintroduce nature into our lives, but concreteisation is ever increasing... This is illustrated by the oxymoronic title of the exhibition, “Concrete Jungle“, chosen by Levalet. It is indeed this permanent search for balance that is in question here.
In order to respond to this, Levalet wanted to step out of his comfort zone through new technical experiments in dialogue with his usual semantic research. While Levalet comes from theatre and video, he has rediscovered painting, a medium he had never fully explored. Paradoxically attracted by its academic character, he has derived pleasure from it in the service of the subject. He went even further technically, sometimes adding another medium: concrete. It is then in hollow or in volume that this symbolic material par excellence of the urban is revealed, thus enlightening this reflection on the human being seeking his place between city and nature. Not only is Levalet not lacking in ideas or creativity, but under the guise of humour, he forces us to face certain disturbing social realities and to question ourselves. Concrete Jungle presents 40 previously unpublished works, including 15 drawings.