A photographic collaboration between photographer Samuel Pasquier and artist Olivier Charland. “En Parallèle” began as an observation of a particular pattern or “quiet repetition” amongst their respective archives. Despite the photographs being taken independently, they nonetheless shared a kind of visual logic. In exploring how individual acts of image-making could converge so often, they look beyond their close, fifteen-year friendship and shared locale, to reflect on “emergence” and the ways in which large-scale patterns can arise from small interactions. As their friend, Samuel Bonneau, writes in the intro text for the book:

“If a resemblance appears, what does it mean? The human mind, primed to detect continuity, may impose coherence where none exists. How do we distinguish between recognizing a pattern in the world and projecting one onto it? When does recognition become pareidolia?… These questions deepen the project. They invite the possibility that what is at stake is not only the image, but the act of perception itself. We are confronted with the instability of knowing, the difficulty of separating what we see from how we see. In that sense, the work sits in quiet dialogue with a metaphysical question. Is what we perceive a reflection of the world outside us, or a construction of the world within?”

“En Parallèle” is out now. Click here for more information.