Born in Paris in 1988 and raised in the suburbs, Simon Laveuve grew up among post-war Brutalist architectures that deeply shaped his vision of the city. Towers, industrial zones and modernist housing estates became the matrix of an artistic universe centered on habitat, survival and the memory of places. He began his career as a photographer in 2008, working in portraiture, still life and the music scene, developing a strong sensitivity to light, detail and narrative. Since 2016, he has pursued a self-taught sculptural practice focused on miniature architectures. His dioramas—precarious shelters, suspended dwellings and ruined towers—hover between realism and illusion, poetry and dystopia. Made from recycled and modest materials, they evoke post-industrial landscapes where fragility coexists with resilience. Though marked by the idea of collapse, his work never fully surrenders to despair: signs of autonomy and reconstruction suggest other ways of inhabiting the world. Situated between desolation and hope, his sculptures form a discreet manifesto for poetic survival, inviting viewers to imagine new futures within the ruins of the present.