PLAKT:
Camille Orso Caël
Camille Orso Caël (previously Picquot) is a visual artist whose work drifts between photography and film, blending the spontaneous with the staged. Their images often hover in a space between the real and the imagined-where everyday details become slightly unfamiliar, and moments that seem incidental are subtly choreographed. Whether working with moving images or still frames, Camille Orso Caël constructs scenes that invite a second glance, drawing attention to gestures, surfaces, and light that might otherwise go unnoticed.
Their practice is deeply intuitive. They collects photographs over time-snapshots, experiments, moments captured by chance- and gradually shapes them into cohesive narratives. This approach gives their work a layered, open quality, where the viewer is encouraged to make their own associations. Rather than offering clear stories, Camille Orso Caël explores mood and rhythm. There’s a quiet tension running through her images, a sense that something has just happened or is about to unfold. Often, the familiar feels slightly off, as if the world has shifted just a few degrees.
In their most recent series Blissful Asphalt, Camille Orso Caël turns their eye to the urban landscape, using the street as both backdrop and subject. The photographs zoom in on sunlight reflecting off asphalt, small pieces of trash, shadows stretching across the ground -details that might seem mundane at first, but are rendered with striking clarity and unexpected beauty. There’s a feeling of heat, stillness, and alertness in the images. Light becomes a protagonist in its own right: harsh, glowing, transformative.
Light Catch – part of a new, still-evolving body of work — continues Camille Orso Caël ‘s exploration of light, and the city as a space for coincidence, magic, and transformation. In the image, a pair of hands appears mid-motion, trying to catch something. For years, Camille Orso Caël has been documenting hand gestures – fascinated by their sensual, tactile expressiveness – and this photo continues that thread: warm, moving hands set against a cold, hard backdrop. Light is not merely a tool of illumination here, but a protagonist in itself – symbolic, physical, almost spiritual. The image shifts between clarity and blur, surface and suggestion. A key, visible only in shadow, offers a subtle, poetic clue. There’s a trance-like stillness in the movement, as if the moment were caught between instinct and intention, like a glimpse from a dream or a forgotten vision.
PLAKT invites artists to create works printed as blueback, which are pasted across the city. This is done by professionals who typically distribute event advertisements, giving them control over when and where the artworks appear. Embracing spontaneity and unpredictability, the posters pop up in unexpected spots, disappearing just as quickly—reflecting the uncontrollable, fleeting nature of city life. PLAKT is about creating unexpected encounters—brief moments of joy, curiosity, or reflection. Whether it’s a quick pause during a busy day or a smile on a familiar street corner, these artworks aim to connect art with the everyday, reminding us to live in the moment and embrace the unexpected nature of life.
We are spreading over 300 copies of each artwork across the public spaces of Brussels and Flanders. Exactly when and where? We don’t know—that’s part of the beauty.
Camille Orso Caël €265
Light Catch
We saved 15 pristine copies of this print to present as a limited edition – signed and numbered by the artist.