Felice Varini's Optical-Illusion Interiors

These interiors appear to have had a Photoshop layer added to them, in preparation for a magazine article.

In fact, those geometric shapes were captured in-camera, and actually exist within the space. They were painted by French artist Felice Varini, who creates interventions in architectural spaces.

The starting point for Varini's work is a "viewpoint:"

I call a viewpoint a point in space that I choose precisely: it is generally located at eye level and preferably situated along a mandatory passageway, for example, an opening between one room and another, a landing, etc. However, I don't make this a strict rule because not all spaces necessarily have an obvious path. The choice is often arbitrary.

The viewpoint functions as a point of view, that is, as a possible starting point for approaching the painting and the space. The painted form is coherent when the viewer is positioned at that point. When the viewer moves away from the viewpoint, the work encounters space, which generates an infinite number of perspectives on the form. Therefore, it is not through this initial viewpoint that I perceive the work; its true meaning lies in the sum total of all the viewer's perspectives.