Miles

Jérémy Goffart aka Miles Signs is a sign painter of German origin who lives in Liège. If drawing has been a common thread since childhood, and has never truly diminished, this first medium will eventually become embodied in his work in a wide variety of forms and techniques; whether it be hand lettering, gilding, graffiti or large format painting with the spray can, brush, roller. His sensitivity to the art of lettering is first displayed through graffiti. He then further develops his connection to this art form by composing alphabets and deepens his knowledge of the skills related to this art form. During an internship at the Centre des métiers du patrimoine de l’abbaye Paix-Dieu, he receives training in gilding techniques. His sources of inspiration are varied and to a certain degree are voluntarily drawn from fields outside his field of specialisation. If illustration or painting are essential elements of his work, so too are the ancestral nature of certain techniques in decorative arts, tattoo designs and, more generally, the early days of the cartoon and the comic strip. He also admits to having a certain interest in transport and army museums, feeding his curiosity for industrial graphics. Passionate about architecture and the evolution of urban spaces, Miles’ aim is to intertwine the sensation of space and the sensation of time. He seeks not only to produce a coherent connection between the messages present in the urban landscape via his works, which have been developed with the integration in their environment in mind; moreover, this connection must allow a temporal break down of the visual effects: it captures the attention of the passer-by, drawn by the points of impact whose effectiveness is revealed through the sober and minimalist structure, and slows down the viewer’s gaze in order to scrutinise the detail, experience the call and response established between the work and the public space…