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Mailo – AVATAR’S MOUNTAIN PAINTER…
Trained as an interior designer, Marie-Laure Vareilles was quickly won over by the desire to broaden her field of inspiration. Driven by a desire for discovery, since the age of 19 she has traveled to a multitude of countries, always armed with a camera. Later, when she discovered photomontage, this technique became an obvious way of expressing the beauty of the world, its evolutions and letting her creativity flow. Since then, she has defined herself as a creative photographer, building an artistic approach that oscillates between photo-reportage and the visual arts.
By manipulating the images in post-production, she puts different shots into perspective within the same mise-en-scène. All the images used are taken from real-life scenes, with characters encountered and places crossed. Marie-Laure Vareilles makes the planet her playground. Yet her images stand out for their style, bordering on the surreal: she subtly makes opposites coexist, giving rise to narratives telling of a new world that she imagines from scratch, but which is not incongruous for all that.
Beyond their aesthetic appeal, Marie-Laure Vareilles’ works are no less messengers. Mixing continents and generations, becoming an archivist of the passage of time and sometimes of places that no longer exist, she gives us a glimpse of the realities of the four corners of the globe. Drawing on current events that are shaking the world, Marie-Laure Vareilles shares her societal, sociological, environmental and personal reflections on the changes taking place around us.
From an imaginary world full of people, she draws the support that will enable her to talk about it in her own way, but without violence, without imposing, always with subtlety and a hint of poetry.
The underlying reflection is therefore not militant, but committed to a global, universal reflection, focused on the fundamental need to live together.