Raïssa Venables creates surreal, digitally composed images of uninhabited spaces. Through her large-scale images of everyday places she provokes a visceral interpretation of the ordinary. She illustrates that as we mark the environment it marks us. Without showing any people, Venables shows us their traces.

At first glance, these images resemble film stills and have an affinity to classics by Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick, and David Lynch. Simultaneously, there are references to the Early Renaissance Flemish painters such as Jan van Eyck and Robert Campin. Venables’ seemingly inert settings of everyday life are sensual and living places that create a breathing labyrinth.