No Man’s Land

Title: No Man’s Land
Artist(s): Charlie Lewis Marffy
Curator: Catalin Necula
Opening: 28 February, 11AM – 9PM
Exhibition Dates: 28 February – 31 March 2023
Location: Fabien Fryns Fine Art, Warehouse 17
About: Charlie Lewis Marffy is interested in painting that is true to the experience of living, breathing and failing. In his paintings, Lewis Marffy seems to offer glimpses into a subliminal world; a place that is rife with confusion, contradiction, and ambiguity. It is conjured through an intuitive immediacy that incorporates its afflictions and derailments into something psychologically challenging. A peculiar darkness is slowly unveiled under the veneer of a ludic sensibility. It is an unfamiliar non-representational space that provokes the imagination with the indication of something internal and personal. The viewer, much like the painter, is invited to navigate the painting as a mental map in the same way an orienteer would. The divergent actualisations, absence of clear horizontal lines and spiralling overlapping forms work in the same way that a cartographer does when he flattens the earth’s surface onto paper.