lauren marsolier
by Palaroide
"My work deals with the psychological experience of
transition, a particular phase when our parameters of perception change;
we suddenly don't perceive ourselves, our environment or our life the
way we used to. We undergo what could be called a gestalt change. That
transitional phase feels like being in a place we know but can't quite
identify.
Living in a hyperreal world that mutates at an exponential speed, we
multiply experiences that propel us into that mental place where the
reality we knew is not the one we sense any longer. We repeatedly get
that feeling of disorientation, dissonance and false reassurance, as we
try to adjust to a post-modern society marked by the implosion of the
boundaries between the image and its referent, appearance and reality.
We have been introduced to a new stage of abstraction, a
dematerialization of the world in which images and signs take on a life
of their own and cause a shift in the human notion of the real.
The loss of concrete connections to the objects of our senses creates a
void within us, and unleashes a flow of new and elusive perceptions.
Giving them the visual characteristics of a landscape is my way to
explore them. Echoing our simulated environments, I blend the real and
the fabricated, creating photographs made out of shots taken at
different times and places, thus composing my images layer upon layer in
a process closer to painting than traditional photography."
