Claude Lévêque
Born in 1953 in Nevers. Lieves in Montreuil (France).
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What characterizes the work of Claude Lévêque for some years, it is an absolutely singular shape of body art, an at the same moment sensorial and mental art, where the body is not any more the instrument or the vehicle of a shape but his privileged receiver (...).
Present element from the very beginning of his work, Claude Lévêque refined the use of the light, acting directly on the sensory and behavioral marks of the visitors of his exhibitions.
Instrument of torture or seduction, the light influences the senses, the memory, to which it is necessary to add the sound, the divers materials and a sense sharpened by the labyrinth, by the traffic and by the loss of marks." Extracts from a texte by Éric Troncy, "Claude Lévêque", Éditions Hazan, 2001.

"Asthma attack!"
video by Claude Lévêque with Léo Carbonnier. cut: Armand Morin. Sound: Gerome Nox. Claude Lévêque, 2004, 3mn, stills.
"At the end of the 70's, I realized small stickings of cinematic sequences in super 8. I was interested in the underground movies of Warhol, Anger, Mekas and in the experimental movies generally. These cinematic notes, "Chroniques froides", "A film" (Rolling Stones), "Signal", "Malher déchiré", briefly compiled, were accompanied with nostalgic and derisory songs. Asthma Attack! resumes this type of images fragmentation with the current digital ways of production." Claude Lévêque.

"One afternoon, my friend Léo makes me visit a site of recycling and as he juggles, I had the idea to film him in this landscape. In the post-production I put him in imbalance by assembling various sequences around the notion of passing time, of halving and disappearance. Certain inverted shots produce a kaléidoscopique effect. Sometimes an inhaler runs on a table and the linear sound of a draft can mean that Léo is asthmatic. There takes place the notion of portrait. Asthma Attack! is projected as a film on a screen." Claude Lévêque.
videO EXTRACT 1 (4Mo)
videO Extract 2 (7Mo)