Great Hall Windows Replacement // Learn More
A Meeting of the School Trustees

Robert Harris
A Meeting of the School Trustees (Detail), 1885
oil on canvas
102.2 x 126.5 cm
Purchased 1886
National Gallery of Canada (no. 6)

Print this page Share this page

Nicolas Baier: Pareidolias

Most Recent Podcast RSS

Loading the player ...

Photographer

Nicolas Baier: Pareidolias.

Since the early 1990s, Montreal artist Nicolas Baier has been challenging photographic convention with his elaborately constructed digital imagery. This intriguingly titled exhibition features a selection of large photographic works that represent the artist’s most recent production. The word “pareidolia” refers to the practice of ascribing an image, a meaning or a name to phenomena despite the absence of any true correlation; for instance, the game of transforming clouds into other objects. It is a way of looking at things that opens the mind and extends the imagination – with the works in the exhibition, Baier invites us all to play along.

Download : MP3 (3 mb)
See all Podcasts

Browse our podcasts

Bonnie Devineplay

Bonnie Devine

The Drawings and Paintings of Daphne Odjig: A Retrospective

LISTEN NOW
Marc Mayerplay

Marc Mayer

Marc Mayer, Director, National Gallery of Canada. Meet the Curator : Exhibition Thomas Nozkowski

LISTEN NOW
Jonathan Shaughnessyplay

Jonathan Shaughnessy

Dialogues in the White Cube

LISTEN NOW
Christine Lalondeplay

Christine Lalonde

On Familiar Ground? Canadian Drawings from the National Gallery of Canada

LISTEN NOW
Ann Thomasplay

Ann Thomas

Ann Thomas, Curator of Photography Photography in the 1930s

LISTEN NOW
Claude Baillargeonplay

Claude Baillargeon

Gallery Tour of the Exhibition Imaging a Shattering Earth: Contemporary Photography and the Environmental Debate.

WATCH NOW