
Plausible Realities
Olivier Campagne
With each carefully crafted image, Olivier Campagne’s visualization studio questions the distance between imagination and reality...
Plausible Realities explores the increasingly captivating realm of architectural visualization through the lens of Olivier Campagne's digital-image studio. Based in Paris, his eponymous studio has earned acclaim for its collaboration with architectural firms such as Baukunst, Bruther, and Arrhov Frick. However, rather than merely illustrating architectural design, Campagne’s studio is involved from early on to develop an architectural imagination that creatively guides projects forward. As such, his work encapsulates the essence of the unbuilt, capturing the speculative with the rigor of the photographer's eye, seamlessly merging reality with digital artistry. By infusing his compositions with mundane dimensions of the urban realm, Campagne crafts images that resonate and invite contemplation on the possibility and plausibility of imagined realities.
By reflecting on the dual lens of Campagne’s visual research and commissioned images, a glimpse into the tension and continuity between experimentation and commercial product is constructed. Beyond pushing the limits of software and technology, each image tells a story of exploration and refinement, always blurring the boundaries between abstract and the plausible.
Date
April 4 - May 30, 2024
Venue
Plaza Vertigo, TU Eindhoven
Team
Sergio M. Figueiredo
Vincent van Spaendonk
Bob Colenbrander
Partners
Studio Olivier Campagne