The work of Valère Mougeot is characterized by the interrelation of objects which invites a multilayered dialogue between the verbal and the visual. Using different forms - from painting to sculpture and installations-, he intends to recreate with both irony and melancholy a confusing environment reminiscent of the public and urban space, his main source of inspiration in everyday life.

He diverts its signs, re-uses poor or raw materials as well as manufactured objects. By creating associations, hybridal compositions, he wills to give them a new voice and thus recreate a partially animated space where each piece, fleeting trace of the human interaction, becomes an autonomous messenger according to its mode of appearance. He intends to provoke in the viewer – stroller stuck between the state of a simple passerby and that of reflective reader – a questioning of its attentive ability to decipher the signs of personal and interpersonal conflict that our contemporary societies can generate.

Born in 1988 in Vitry-le-François (France), Valère Mougeot studied art at the EBABX (Bordeaux, France, MFA Art & Media) after graduating in graphic design in Chaumont (France). He lives and works in Berlin since 2013.