MARIE LAURE VAREILLES

Marie-Laure Vareilles was born in 1966. After studying interior architecture and working as a graphic designer for a technical magazine, she decided, aged 36, to dedicate her time to her first love: art and photography. She travels extensively, particularly in Asia and takes photos that she assembles as montages on her return, inspired by her encounters and filled with poetry. These landscape montages made her famous. “I try to create the most realistic imaginary landscapes possible,” she explains, “I want spectators to invent their own story as they look at them, so that the photomontage comes to life according to each individual’s imagination.” Nowadays, Marie-Laure Vareille’s work takes the various forms of photo books, large-format prints, magazines, or even clothing collections! She exhibits in both the United States and Vaison-la-Romaine, the village in the south of France where she continues to live and compile her photos when she returns from her travels. Questioned as to the three things that are essential in life, she replied “creativity, passion, and… a computer!” ... See more See less

References

Exhibitions

Galerie La Fontaine Obscure

Arles, France - 2021

Art Palm Springs

Palm Springs, États-Unis - 2019

(Galerie Simard Bilodeau)

The L.A. Art Show

Los Angeles, États-Unis - 2017, 2018 & 2019

(Galerie Simard Bilodeau)

Aqua Art Miami

Miami, États-Unis - 2017

(Galerie Simard Bilodeau)

Salon d'Art Contemporain ART UP Lille

Lille, France - 2018 & 2019

(Galerie Declic Art)

Salon Art Elysées

Paris, France - 2015

(Galerie Arvista)

Salon d'Art Contemporain Art 3f

Lyon, France - 2014

(Galerie Cortade)

Salon d'Art Contemporain

Biarritz, France - 2014

(Galerie Cortade)

Salon d'Art Contemporain ART UP Lille

Lille, France - 2014

(Galerie Cortade)

Interview

Why photography?

Photos show what is real, and making montages allows me to transform this reality in order to go further in this voyage…

Your inspiration?

Beauty, poetry, dreams, teaching, sharing…

What is unique about your photographs?

It is those who look at my creations who make my work unique. Their gaze creates new histories.

What is the context of this series?

Me, who thinks about me, who looks only at me, who is interested only in me: the selfie.

An anecdote for us?

Photographing some graffiti in the tiny streets of Naples, showing a head using a cell phone, and being manipulated: this is where my desire to work with the selfie came from.

A photo that you would like to have taken?

The one that I will never take hoping to take THE PERFECT PHOTO…

Your most recent award or accomplishment?

A commission from Eurazeo for their Manhattan offices…

Your upcoming projects?

Helping show the diversity of all inhabitants of our planet; raising awareness for protecting the planet and the environment…

Your slogan?

Creativity serving the poetic imagination….

Your favourite YK photos?

Too many to list!

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