In this Lot village, street Art blends perfectly with medieval architecture

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The Town Hall of Luzech in collaboration with the Esquisse association, launched the project of a magnificent street Art fresco carried out by theartist Jem Legraff.

Her portrait of a young girl now adorns a blank wall of the historic district of the commune, at number 121, Grand rue de la Ville.

Jem Legraff, artist from Cahors

The author of this work contributed with Jérôme Theilborie and Jérôme Tuffal to the creation of the legendary Atelier 155, at 155, route du Payrat in Cahors, a veritable laboratory of ideas from which creations as original as they are aesthetic flow.

Jem's favorite field is what we call street art. Under this term we bring together all forms of art produced in public spaces, from graffiti to murals, trompe l'oeil, stencils and collage.

Street art

For a long time, it was associated with the expression of a revolt, with a vandalism protesting everything that embodies academicism. But, if we cannot deny this subversive aspect, street art mainly includes creations whose goal is, on the contrary, the aestheticization of public space. This is evidenced by the creations of the famous British artist Banksy or those of the Spaniard Shfir, whose “The Cellist of Fene” was voted best mural in the world during the StreetArtCities Awards 2023 competition. Although New York, Paris, London, Berlin, Barcelona and Amsterdam are pioneering cities for the development of this movement, many other cities have had a determining role and are today positioned as open-air museums for Street Art lovers: Montreal, Rome, Ghent, Lisbon, Toulouse, Athens and even Shenzhen in China invite you to take fabulous walks.

In English, street means street. And the street is not the prerogative of cities. It also connects the homes of villages, towns, communes and hamlets. Therefore, why should street art be reserved for metropolises only? This is probably the reflection that the Quercy artist Didier Chamizo had when he embarked in 1992 on the creation of “Mur 2 Douelle”, a mural painting 800 meters long and 6 meters high created in the eponymous commune on a dike of the Lot. Even if this work is controversial, it nevertheless opened the way to numerous vocations in the department such as the creation in Cahors of the Urban Park where you can admire 300 m² frescoes signed by different artists.

One could nevertheless object that heritage, a legacy of the past, cannot accommodate such a contemporary form of art. Through his talent, Jem Legraff demonstrates the opposite and we invite all lovers of medieval architecture to go to 121, Grand rue de la Ville, Luzech, to form their own idea.

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