Urban fragments, torn aesthetics

Under the name Las Vegas, William Picart explore the city's layers like leafing through a palimpsest. Inspired by the poster artists of New Realism – chief among them Jacques Villeglé – he develops a practice centered on the urban poster: Torn posters, ripped, re-glued, reworked, ...where the accident becomes an artistic gesture.

He names his works "wall skins", like so many living fragments torn from the city's skin. Each composition, raw and layered, bears witness to what is written and torn in public spaces. Vanished typographies, popular visuals, outdated slogans... everything becomes material for visual and poetic recomposition.

His pieces are born from this tension between chaos and order, between chance and intention. Far from simple collage, he reshapes and gives voice to Ephemeral urban stories, capturing what the walls shout, hide, or forget.

Lasveguix doesn't just document the city: it reinterpret, layer by layer, to reveal what she doesn't always say about herself.