Claude Lévêque is recognized for many years as a major artist of the French and international scene. His works refer to popular culture in the everyday environment and mental images. It creates moods, environments and objects, and expands the size of the plant using the effects of light and sound. Playing the capacity of the works to cause visual and sensitive emotions, it disrupts perceptual habits and reactive cultural references for its creation.

Installation The Twilight Jaguar, acquired by the Maison Européenne de la Photographie video for his collection in 2009, presents a video image in black and white two eyes separated by a wall, falling squarely within this universe. Its title is a nod to the album JoeyStarr "Beware of Jaguarr, which in turn refers to the Brassens song" Beware of a gorilla. "

The work was done by the artist during a period of two years in a hospital for children suffering from mental disorders. The eyes do not clignent not close ever. The eye is seen through an eyepiece and, as in a mirror. Upon closer examination, the iris reflects the silhouette of the artist taking the picture. This piece explores the visual perception, but can also be interpreted as a metaphor for photography. It questions the definition of gaze and voyeurism, and the relationship of the artist to his subject. Who's Watching Who? The eye is now watching its prey or is it like a frightened animal crouched on itself in the hope that the danger passes?

Along with exposure to MEP, Claude Lévêque is the artist who represented France at the 53rd Venice Biennale. It suggests, in the french Pavilion, an installation entitled Le Grand Soir.

"Most of the work of Claude Lévêque consists of installations that articulate objects, sounds and lights and take a powerful places and spectators. It develops, since the early eighties, a world of saisissement, halfway between coercion and delight "wrote Christian Bernard, curator of the project for the Venice Biennale. Memory traumatized or nostalgic wonder of childhood, signs of ambivalence and emotions, rage of desire, rebellion before the difficulty and potential violence in the world, the universe of material Lévêque finds its focus and its purpose in the destruction. The discomfort or existential concern that sourdent its staged, the ambiguity of the emotions that rise emblématisent features contemporary forms of social control and oppression - voluntary or involuntary servitude. "