Louis-André Labadie is a generative artist and designer who runs the design studio Petite Révolte, based in Quebec, Canada.He writes code that generates drawings composed from flow fields and hand-traced lines, often evoking structures like land division and shifting urban space.
In his own account, Labadie studied art for a semester before dropping out, then trained in computer science and worked as a software developer, only realizing years later that code and the visual arts could be directly connected.His early generative work, Convergence, uses flow fields to create undulating clusters of lines dotted with small blooms of circles, and became the technical foundation for later series.The related Territory A series explored occupying time as it moves forward, while its follow-up Territory B took a maximalist approach to filling space, drawing on references such as ad-laden web pages, historical land division, and wild posting.Later series include Night Market, an exploration of abstract urbanism he describes as “chaos from order”, and Boroughs, whose regions grow and erode as its emptiest areas reach to connect with one another.
In January 2022 Labadie released Maps for grief on Art Blocks, a 500-piece project exploring “togetherness without contact”.Two interacting noise fields draw lines that shorten and cluster into symbols of coping — tears, mountains, asterisks, and crosses — when they can no longer flow.Before that, most of his NFT sales had been through Foundation in 2021.
