Every year's end brings the same ceremony in the United States: houses and gardens dress in light and celebrate in a sparkling fairy-tale. Laure Vasconi portrays these façades (in 2011) in her series Merry Christmas, a resolutely objective approach that offers a study of manners belonging as much to reportage as to staged art practice. The familiar décor of stereotyped suburbs is perceptible only as an unreal universe of luminous points; at the edge of abstraction, these domestic constellations diffuse a feeling of strangeness. The book comes as two booklets of 22 detachable postcards, a gift idea.