David

Leleu

David Leleu draws inspiration from various books and magazines, which he radically transforms using distinctive techniques to reveal new realities. In his excavated magazines, Leleu doesn't add anything to the original structure but instead, removes material through cutting, resulting in a delicate, lace-like image. His work blurs the lines of traditional art forms, producing hybrid objects that challenge their original integrity.

Most of the time I cut but don’t paste!

David Leleu

Whether it is printed, photographic or cinematographic, images are David Leleu’s primary source of inspiration. By using different processes such as cutting, collage, photography or installation, he radically transforms these collected images thereby revealing a new reality. The objective is for him to reveal and reactivate the visible into another form. His installations, like his excavated magazines, blur the viewer's visual clues, disrupt his perception, thus creating a new sensitive and intimate experience of what is to be seen.

In this process, he does not add anything to the original structure of the magazine, he digs directly into the book. He subtracts material from the publication by cutting out from it. It seems to be collage but nothing is fixed in these excavated magazines and book compositions. The result is a mysterious and fragile lace-like image. Is it photography, drawing, collage, sculpture, a photomontage? David Leleu’s process is all about blurring the lines between classical processes aiming at delivering hybrid objects disturbed in their integrity.

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David Leleu was born in 1973 in Chauny, France. He is currently based in Lille, France.

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