Patricia Low Contemporary is pleased to present Nuit Blanche, a large scale photography exhibition showcasing works by Gregory Crewsdon, Thomas Demand, Philip-Lorca Dicorcia, Sylvie Fleury,  Dan Holdsworth, Axel Hütte, Annette Kelm, Florian Maier-Aichen and Katharina Sieverding.

Nuit Blanche explores the concept of ‘night’ as a contemporary examination of an enduring art historical theme, and contextual metaphor for the enigmatic processes of the photographic media. The paradox of light – its intangibility, transience, and pure energy – becomes a point of fixation in these works, both in their making and subjects, presenting a sublime coalescence of science, mysticism, realism, fiction and 21st century spirituality.

‘Night’, with all its literary connotations of black magic and witching hours, shadowy lurkings, illicitness, and the unknown, in Nuit Blanche is conceived as a liminal place, a metaphysical portal to worlds dictated by photography’s bent time and space. It’s the surreal aura of Holdsworth and Maier-Aichen’s time collapsed landscapes, bedazzling with futuristic discovery; and Crewsdon’s hauntingly lit filmic scenes, uncannily familiar and homespun, staging the creepy idyll of suburbia. It encompasses the decadent power of Hutte’s city views, cropped with a real estate mogul’s ambitious precision, claiming immense freedom and ownership, self-projection and grandeur, on all urban expanse has to offer; and the humble making of a universe of one’s very own, as in Demand’s cosmos-like field: a model construction of paper and light, a pure trick of the lens, falsifying the final frontier.