Simon Laveuve
    Print n°1 (2024)
    Epson P20 000 print on Bright White Hahnemühle 310g - wooden frame
    60 x 40 cm
    580 €

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    ABOUT THE ARTIST

    Portrait | © Simon Laveuve

    SIMON LAVEUVE

    “Born in 1988, I’m originally from the Paris suburbs, where I still live. I grew up in a concrete tower, designed by the committed architect Renée Gailhoustet, who built all the social housing in Ivry-sur-Seine. Surrounded by dormitory towns, housing estates and the industrial zone, it was above all the town’s spatial layout, created in collaboration with Jean Renaudie, that inevitably left its mark on me.

    My career path, too, has had an impact on my inspirations. As an author-photographer for over 10 years, I’ve worked in the fashion, music, reportage and publishing worlds… Specializing in portraiture and still life, people and their environment have always been at the heart of my work.

    Since 2016, I’ve been building my own world in miniature, combining volume and staging. Habitat and survival are two central elements of my approach. Self-taught in the world of sculpture and modeling, I use a lot of salvaged elements. I like the principle of second life and recycling through art for creation. Detail, reading and meaning are directly linked to my earlier photographic work.

    What most of my pieces have in common is that they feature a shelter. A shelter for man, made by man, whose figure is not necessarily present. I like to work on height and the inaccessible. Protection and abandonment. Fallen icons and their symbolisms. Resistance and insubordination.”