Martin Levêque

– CASA WABI 2023

Community Project

The link between society and nature is very fragile or sometimes non-existent. We need to reawaken curiosity and interest, to marvel again. We know that the basis of respect is knowledge. In this way we consider and observe the environment with a more attentive and protective eye.
I propose creating a botanical garden to create an induction of wisdom without making the matter feel too serious. Although not all the endemic species of refining can be brought together, the selection of xeric plants (which do not require much water) and medicinal plants will have the objective of promoting more in-depth individual work.
I will use an accessible and playful language, particularly with sign fonts that normally appeal to consumption, which sadly is often harmful… intuitive sculptural modules will be built that invite you to coexist with the space and the plants.

Log-Piece

France

Martin Levêque (France, 1987) lives and works in Mexico City. After studying communication and seven years of experience in entrepreneurship as an art director, he began to create visual works in an autodidact way.

His work explores our relationship with objects and space. Through his installations, sculptures, photographs and silkscreen printing, Levêque tries to spread confusion among the visitors by offering a moment that breaks the barriers imposed by our daily life. His work is an utopian quest that transforms the impossible into reality. His colorblindness is at the origin of his fascination for illusion.

Levêque defies the traditional tools of the analog art and carefully chooses his materials and intends to give them a second life. The matter properties are an universal and inexhaustible source of inspiration. In a dizzying era of constant and rapid changes, the tangible holds a strong and positive message, that of an immutable truth. Levêque is undeniably moved by the evolution of knowledge, and especially by its obsolescence that our generation is testifying.

In 2017 he presented his first monumental installation, Sanctuaire, in the main venue of Mutek Mx, a digital art festival in Mexico City. This artwork is a tribute to the energy that the swarming Mexico City brought to him. In February 2018, Sanctuaire took a central place in Salon ACME, one of the main contemporary art fairs in the country. The piece won 2018 the grand prize of the Korean competition K Design Award.
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