Valentin Prevost

His artistic approach

   His work revolves around the image of human emotions as organisms subject to the principle of thermodynamics (which is the path of energy from point A, birth, to point B, death.) . Forced to note that emotions are born, accumulate in humans, evolve and give rise to a host of behaviors and interpretations, which have shaped our material world (by extension history, and culture), this subject won over Val. In order to make this tangible, he started from the following comparison: an emotion is a flame.

   Who of the vacuum lights up, oscillates in an unpredictable way then dies out. In the principle of thermodynamics, entropy is a factor not to be neglected because energy degrades, like emotions, to give way or coexist with another. Which creates disorder, chaos. He stages the vision of the child he was, struck by the reality of the world as it is. It is a dichotomy between dream and reality.

   This vision of the artist gives birth to extravagant works, and anthropomorphic characters with almost palpable textures. An omnipresent Chaos, organized and articulated around a wide palette of colors that can only be found at Val. Although executed with meticulousness, his works are raw, transgressive, insolent and extravagant. They are a perfect cocktail of benevolence and extreme violence.

The artist

Coming from a modest background, Valentin Prévost has always drawn and been made aware of art through his mother who paints. Music, mythology as well as astrophysics and philosophy are his main sources of inspiration. He followed a so-called “classic” school curriculum. Literary baccalaureate, License in Communication then a Master in Marketing. Alongside his studies he was already working in the artistic field. He made album covers and produced and edited music videos.