Nicolas Baier: Pareidolias (English / French Edition) (French and English Edition)

Since the early 1990s, Montreal artist Nicolas Baier has been challenging photographic convention with his elaborately constructed digital imagery. This intriguingly titled publication features a selection of large photographic works that represent the artist's most recent production. The term Pareidolias refers to the perceptual game of ascribing a shape or form with meaning despite the absence of any precise correlation. Within the context of the pareidolia phenomenon, Baier's works function as catalytic stimuli, enticing viewers with aesthetically seductive surfaces and non-iconic imagery to engage our perceptual faculties in search for meaning.