Laurent Impeduglia has been active on the international scene since the early 2000s as a painter, draughtsman and jack-of-all-trades. He likes to depict characters from the world of his childhood (advertising, video games, comics, etc.), combining them without hierarchy or apparent purpose with natural or architectural elements, abstract forms and more or less obscure symbols. His compositions also give pride of place to short phrases that appear as sentences or titles, in the manner of Jacques Charlier, his elder in irreverence. More pared-down than his later works, the large canvas acquired by SPACE questions the relationship between art and money, a constant preoccupation in Laurent Impeduglia’s career, reflected in the recurrent presence of the dollar-stripped S or the vampire. Joyfully mocking all established values (art, work, money…), the artist is careful not to allow himself to be seduced by the sirens of single-mindedness and/or the contemporary art market. (Julie Hanique)