Architecture, housing and urbanism are founding elements of Laure Tixier's universe, somewhere between dream and nightmare: the beauty of structures, the nobility of buildings, the gentleness of the interior on the one hand, and on the other, the harshness of cities, the loss of inter-individual links, the destruction of the natural environment. The watercolor series "Unités Stratigraphiques" (2023) illustrates the duality always present in the artist's work, here between protection and extractivism, and reveals, depending on how you look at them, geological layers in the process of being plundered, or a hollowed-out silhouette of a house, as drawn by children, with a square façade and triangular roof.
These watercolors evoke Laure Tixier's essential question: "How do we inhabit the world? How do we manage the construction drive that gave rise to the first architectures and transformed our lives, gradually cutting us off from the rest of the living world? What balances are still possible, between the land that belongs to nature and the land we take from it? These questions are explored by the artist from multiple angles, but always from a feminist perspective.