"A photographic collaboration between photographer Samuel Pasquie 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."
"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."
Samuel Pasquie and Olivier Charland collaborated on En Parallèle after noticing quiet repetitions across their separate photographic archives. Photographs made independently nonetheless reveal similar visual logic and recurring motifs. The project investigates how individual acts of image-making can frequently converge, despite proximity and shared context. The work moves beyond personal friendship and locale to consider emergence and how large-scale patterns arise from numerous small interactions. Questions about resemblance probe whether the mind recognizes genuine continuity or imposes coherence, invoking pareidolia. The project foregrounds perception, exploring the instability of knowing and whether perception reflects the outside world or constructs an inner one.
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