Lauren Marsolier's eerily serene photo-collages go on show in Paris

Lauren Marsolier creates images unlike anything I’ve ever seen. Piecing together fragments from several different photographs from her personal library – taken over a period of years in a number of different locations – she composes landscapes that are simultaneously utterly strange and so familiar they leave you convinced you’ve seen them before. Lauren was born in France but now lives and works in Los Angeles, which goes some way to explaining the vast landscapes, the huge modernist houses and that soft bluish light which bathes many of the compositions in her work, causing them to emanate a kind of serenity.

Picking up on her peculiarly wonderful work, Galerie Richard has published Transition, a book of her series which will be launched alongside the artist’s first solo exhibition in Paris this winter. They explain: “Located somewhere between fiction and reality, her images represent a mental landscape affected by a world of constant change. They show an unreality become manifest, transitional non-places where human action and inhabitation are recorded in strange antitheses of nature and artifice, or, better still, artificial nature and natural artifice."

Lauren’s Marsolier: Transition will be on show at Galerie Richard from 15 November to 10 January.