Lo & Behold, is pleased to present a new show Edge of Extinction, curated by Pascal Ancel Bartholdi.

A wide range of techniques, analogue photography, sculpture, film, video, pictorial manipulation, digital; in genres as diverse as art documentary, portraiture, conceptual, and still life, either challenge or enhance ‘the raison d’ être’ (the justified survival) of the black and white image. How does a black and white perspective change our view of actuality, or beauty? Where does the monochromatic medium fit in our contemporary visual regime? Do we use the Black and White mode of representation to keep a world on the edge of extinction alive? A world we refer to as the past, nostalgia, poetry, beauty and feelings? Can this filter enhance our vision of the world or does it falsify it? From a socio-political view point, can the monochrome foundation of visual comprehension become a metaphor for the unification of cultures and races across the nations? This show focuses on the relationship between contemporary mechanical and digital practice and a mode of seeing that is still regarded as ambiguous, belonging to the past yet ubiquitous to the present. A paradoxical language in a constant state of transformation.