Prosper LegaultFrance

Prosper Legault (b. 1994, Bordeaux, FR) collects items and debris from the urban environment and reassembles them in unfamiliar ways. By juxtaposing neon lights, illuminated advertisements, shop signs, he provides new and unexpected meanings by bringing everyday reality into art.

This rearrangement and combination of different objects and materials such as Chinese shop signs, posters, and medieval flags in pieces like “Tu es un coquillage” and “Le roi et l’oiseau” evoke the theoretical and practical work of Kurt Schwitters, particularly his Dada poems and expansive installations such as “Merzbau”.

In a similar way to composing and mixing music, Prosper samples well-known objects, scenes, and images, remixes them into a new-found aesthetic order, and then presses the repeat button – the neon lights ever a reminder of a world that never sleeps.

Prosper Legault lives and works in Paris, where he studied at the Beaux-Arts de Paris (2020). His work has been shown, among others, at Orangerie in Rheda-Wiedenbrück (2024), at MEWO Kunsthalle in Memmingen (2024), at Galerie Thomas Bernard in Paris (2021), Frac Île-de-France in Paris (2022), Saint-Eustache Church in Paris (2020), and Spiral Art Center in Tokyo (2019). He is the recipient of several grants and awards, including the 1 % Marché de l’art (2023), the ADIAF Emergence Grant (2022), and the Rubis Mécénat prize (2020). His work is part of public and private collections, including Fonds d’Art Contemporain Paris and the Société Générale Collection.