Florent Touchot

Visual artist and photographer Florent Touchot works with paper that he find in the street or on walls (posters) and plexiglass, that he uses as a support for his works. Using a mixed technique of collage and acrylic, Florent Touchot salvages bits of old posters, found either in the streets of Paris or Marseille, the Parisian metro or local flea markets.

Beginning with a concept and an emotion, he expresses a dynamic and colorful universe inspired by popular and street culture. Florent transforms these posters, creating a structured and coherent whole with harmony of form and color. It is our mind and our memories that put an order into all this chaos. We find in his works colors, words, family memories transformed by the young artist.

In each of his canvases, he remind us of a familiar images of figures - childhood heroes, old advertisments, and images from the past like the Mac Apple logo, or the underground sign... His work is very deep as painted perspex is bloted into the canvas to create another layer and complete the story.