Artist of the week from France – in pictures

A quirky world in threes: triplets serving black champagne and speaker-pods playing opera at La Bulle Néon, part of Cellar Door, Loris Greaud's unsettling exhibition at London's ICA, 2008 Photograph: Courtesy Francois Pinault

Drawing with lights. Loris Greaud, La Bulle Néon from Cellar Door, 2008, neons, metallic structure and black plexiglass
Photograph: Courtesy Francois Pinault / Olivier Pasqual

A ghostly fairytale forest is lit up by an electric sun in another of La Bulle Néon installations that made up Greaud's Cellar Door exhibition in 2008
Photograph: Courtesy Francois Pinault

Art, science and technology come together in a black oak box for Greaud's sculptural film installation, Bucky, the Intergalactic Draw, 2007-2010
Photograph: Courtesy Greaudstudio and Yvon Lambert, The Pace Gallery

Tatiana Trouvé is known for tapping into shifting experiences of time and space. Here, hundreds of metallic pendulums are suspended from the ceiling and graze the ground. 350 Points Towards Infinity, 2009, iron, magnets and metal
Photograph: Galerie Perrotin, Paris

Nothing is quite what it seems in Tatiana Trouvé's surreal drawings. Untitled, from the series Intranquility, 2010, paper on canvas, cork, copper, varnish, burn mark
Photograph: Adagp, Paris 2011, Courtesy Galerie Perrotin, Paris

Trouvé's drawings are like stills from a surreal film. Untitled, from the series Remanence, 2010, paper on canvas, pastel, graphite, aluminium
Photograph: Andy Stagg/© Adagp, Paris 2011, Courtesy Galerie Perrotin, Paris

A huge rock invades the gallery space in Tatiana Trouvé's Absorption, 2008-2010, stone, patina bronze, paint
Photograph: Adagp, Paris 2011 Courtesy Galerie Perrotin, Paris

A dolphin idly swims past brutalist architecture in Cyprien Gaillard's film Cities of Gold and Mirrors, 2009, which combines radical and uncanny images Photograph: Courtesy Spruth Magers Berlin London / Laura Bartlett Gallery London

Gaillard's photography often pairs visionary architecture with a childish playfulness. Geographical Analogies, 2006-2009
Photograph: Courtesy Sprüth Magers Berlin London / Bugada & Cargnel Paris / Laura Bartlett Gallery London

The romantic meets the modern in Cyprian Gaillard's series Geographical Analogies, 2006-2009
Photograph: Courtesy Sprüth Magers Berlin London / Bugada & Cargnel Paris / Laura Bartlett Gallery London