laurent chéhère’s airborne architecture series sees french houses fly
all images © laurent chéhère
french photographer laurent chéhère‘s ongoing ‘flying houses’ series takes cues from his love of cinema and personal wanderings around little-known neighborhoods of his hometown of paris. five, never-before-exhibited images from the series are presented by muriel guépin, NY from now until february 22, 2015, each depicting a dreamlike world of airborne architecture. the whimsical collection — which marry digital manipulation with analog photography — sees buildings, homes, tents and trailers removed from their usual urban and suburban backgrounds and float in the air like weightless balloons.
‘rue disparue/ lost street’, 2015
the scenes range from quite realistic to completely surreal. ‘nature morte / still life’ features a zoo-full of animals whimsically floating into the air while ‘max’ sees a typical-looking hotel block hovering in the sky.
‘max’
‘hotel du lion d’or / hotel of golden lion’
‘gainsbourg’
‘le voyeur / the peeping tom’
‘couscous’
‘a vendre / for sale’
‘trace au mur / on the wall’
‘nature morte / still life’
‘cinema’
‘rouge/red’, 2015
‘who are you?’, 2014
