Steel, neon, PVC, walk in the city
“My artistic practice often consists in
creating with things that already exist,” explains Prosper Legault. Working
first and foremost on the city, he first took photographs of illuminated stores
at night then started to collect the neon signs themselves, a symbol of the
constant agitation of modern cities. With sharp critical creativity, he
juxtaposes these urban fragments to give them a new signification in a process
of restoration of reality reminding of the aspirations of the 20th-century
avant-garde movements. “Je te fais marché, (de l’art contemporain)” displays
the poetic, humoristic, both tender and disillusioned outlook of the artist on
his close surroundings and the modern way of life.
