With Clap, Levalet does not pay homage to cinema in a literal way. Instead, he appropriates, diverts, and fragments it. For the first time, he develops a body of work based on assemblages of vintage film posters, which he cuts, rearranges, and recomposes. From these fragments emerge new, hybrid images where references intersect and echo one another. At the center of these compositions, his recurring self-portrait character, inserts itself into these reconstructed worlds. Sometimes actor, sometimes spectator, it exists in an in-between space, oscillating between fiction and reality, as if absorbed by the image itself. The exhibition also unfolds through works incorporating film reels and the iconic movie clapboard, manipulated, diverted, and staged by the artist. These elements, emblematic...