Les Levine is one of the first artists to have mastered the medium of video in order to largely disseminate his research and thoughts on the phenomena of data, communication, and advertising. Part semiologist, part moralist, he navigates between the fields of painting, posters, and photography, using video as an invitation to subvert the visual and textual rhetoric of various types of communication. This video performance represents Les Levine singing and dancing to the popular tunes of his adolescence.

At the start of each song, the artist places a certain quantity of coloured pigments onto the surface of a sheet of paper that serves as a dance floor. The camera, focused on the movement of his feet, observes the modifications of the paint “as it happens”, coinciding these with each musical segment derived from his personal hit parade, in autobiographical fragments.

Stéphanie Moisdon