ARS Artists

Édouard Levé’s works are often based on representing an already existing picture or text. In his book Journal, the artist has collected news articles from various newspapers and rewritten them without descriptive expressions. Levé creates a new work of art through existent media texts or other works. Meanings are altered but something remains of the content of the photographs, texts or paintings used as source material. His photography series entitled Transfers, seen in the ARS 06 exhibition, is based on the collection of the art museum of Tours, France. Events, relationships between people and compositions in old paintings have been updated in photographs. Levé examines the consequences of transferring a particular picture to another time. We can recognise classical postures and religious motifs in the works but we may not be able to locate the story to which the work refers.