A photographic collaboration between photographer Samuel Pasquier and artist Olivier Charland. “En Parallèle” started as an statement of a selected sample or “quiet repetition” amongst their respective archives. Regardless of the images being taken independently, they nonetheless shared a form of visible logic. In exploring how particular person acts of image-making might converge so usually, they give the impression of being past their shut, fifteen-year friendship and shared locale, to mirror on “emergence” and the methods wherein large-scale patterns can come up from small interactions. As their pal, Samuel Bonneau, writes within the intro textual content for the e-book:
“If a resemblance seems, what does it imply? The human thoughts, primed to detect continuity, might impose coherence the place none exists. How will we distinguish between recognizing a sample on the planet and projecting one onto it? When does recognition turn into pareidolia?… These questions deepen the undertaking. They invite the chance that what’s at stake isn’t solely the picture, however the act of notion itself. We’re confronted with the instability of figuring out, the problem of separating what we see from how we see. In that sense, the work sits in quiet dialogue with a metaphysical query. Is what we understand a mirrored image of the world exterior us, or a development of the world inside?”
“En Parallèle” is out now. Click on right here for extra info.
