Simon Laveuve's 1/35-scale dwellings clinging to rocks and stilts
Simon Laveuve builds 1/35-scale miniature dwellings that sit on stilts and boulders, and Colossal's Kate Mothes has written about his latest series.
The scenes are filled with small details: tiny chairs, produce crates, fishing gear, and salvaged objects reused as tools and furniture. No people appear anywhere, but the signs of daily life make it feel as if the residents have just stepped away. The pieces are about homes built in unlikely, precarious places by people who make do with what they have, and the article reads them as a metaphor for living through political and economic upheaval. Laveuve told Colossal that the work addresses the basic need to find a place to hold on and to live from there.
Five mixed-media works from 2026 are listed, with titles such as Eau-delà Du Gouffre and Demain Sera Comme Hier. His solo exhibition Ancré dans la roche (Anchored in Rock) runs at Loo & Lou Gallery in Paris from November 12 through December 22, and the gallery will also show his work during Luxembourg Art Week, November 20 to 22.
What I like here is that the miniature is not just cute. The tiny objects carry a whole story about shelter and survival, which is something this hobby does best.
Source: Colossal
The scenes are filled with small details: tiny chairs, produce crates, fishing gear, and salvaged objects reused as tools and furniture. No people appear anywhere, but the signs of daily life make it feel as if the residents have just stepped away. The pieces are about homes built in unlikely, precarious places by people who make do with what they have, and the article reads them as a metaphor for living through political and economic upheaval. Laveuve told Colossal that the work addresses the basic need to find a place to hold on and to live from there.
Five mixed-media works from 2026 are listed, with titles such as Eau-delà Du Gouffre and Demain Sera Comme Hier. His solo exhibition Ancré dans la roche (Anchored in Rock) runs at Loo & Lou Gallery in Paris from November 12 through December 22, and the gallery will also show his work during Luxembourg Art Week, November 20 to 22.
What I like here is that the miniature is not just cute. The tiny objects carry a whole story about shelter and survival, which is something this hobby does best.
Source: Colossal
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