Born in 1965, Colmar, FR
Lives and works in Nantes, FR
Since 2001, Laurent Tixador regularly participates in solo and collective exhibitions in France and around the world (CAPC, MAC Marseille, Espace Paul Ricard, Confort Moderne, FRAC Réunion, Biennale de Belleville 2014...).
In 2013, he won the price COAL Art and Environment. Laurent Tixador is characterized by his performances where he challenges himself in extreme and original situations.
Laurent Tixador is a DIY artist and the author of experience in its broadest sense.
In his desire to work essentially with what his immediate environment offers him (which he likes to call opportunistic material), he makes it a point of honor to use simple technologies. He is less interested in the success of an object qua object than building a corpus of opportunities to test both an architectural gesture and his ability to adapt to uncertain conditions.
Tixador Laurent's projects also involve, among other things, displacement: voyages (by foot most often) are part of his immediate experience of the environment. The performative act of walking is as much a part of his work as the informing; and his regularly updated blog invites us to follow step by step by step in his progress or stagnation.
This travel diary or ship's log is complemented by a series of bottles containing scale models of his experiences (in the tradition of the maritime aesthetics of travel souvenirs), small carved objects or gestures of writing and drawing realized on scraps he has gathered on his way.
While environmental and social issues have taken on unprecedented importance in our everyday lives, Laurent Tixador has serenely tested his economy of recovery as he played with the materials he found in situ.