“It all started from a bold intuition; an intuition coming from the observation of sand reaching to screen displays. Together, sand and screen create an association that conveys an ‘archeology of the future’ feel, just like a digital cave painting would.” This is how the Parisian creative studio Services Généraux describes the idea behind their latest project, OASIS—a digital exhibition compiling the work of four contemporary artists and designers, where scrubbing away the sand reveals a space of possibilities and a visual nostalgia for imaginary places and times.

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Paris-based creative studio Services Généraux has reinterpreted a painting by the French artist and painter Diane Dal Pra, creating a series of 3D rendered artworks that aim to explore the boundary between image and object.

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In a digital age, reality is a nebulous concept. The confines of our world have shifted, the edges of existence loosened; our lives are experienced twice, both in person, and on screen. With the rise of CGI, differentiating between these two “realities” can be nearly impossible; a fact celebrated rather than condemned in the latest work from Parisian studio Services Généraux: a “manifesto house”, titled simply ‘Maison’.

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I had subconsciously relegated three-way chats from landlines to the early ’00s, lost—for the best—amidst a sea of low rise jeans, MSN messenger, and bad computer graphics. Last week, this disembodied way of chatting—all sound, no visuals—provided a strangely perfect format for an interview with the notoriously private founders of the Parisian creative bureau, Services Généraux.

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