La Vraie Vie #[nn]

A striking figure dominates the foreground, face obscured by a smartphone held up to photograph — or spy on — a young woman standing alone in a dimly lit background, rendered in a bold, limited palette of deep blues, reds, and oranges. Grégory Mardon's cover art for this Futuropolis release sets an immediately tense, voyeuristic mood that feels very much at home in 2016's anxious digital landscape. Thomas Cadène and Mardon together bring La Vraie Vie — "The Real Life" — a title that resonates sharply against that raised screen separating observer from observed.