A curved street grate becomes an umbrella for a shepherd and his sheep,
and a construction site is transformed into a fortress for mop-wielding
guards in the interactive street art of French artist Charles Leval, better known as Levalet. Seeking inspiration from the Parisian streets,
Levalet is known for his site-specific, India ink drawings that
playfully interact with their surrounding architecture. “Topography is
very important for me, this is why I always check a place out before I
work on it,” Levalet said in an interview with Underground Paris.
“I try to mix the world of representation with the real world by
playing on the physical cohesion of the situations I put up.
Architecture supports my work. Then I work on staging the artwork with
photographs.”
