Dusk

We are pleased to present the second solo exhibition with the gallery by Lisbon-based, Polish artist Rafal Topolewski (b. 1983). Rafal Topolewski draws on his personal memories and dreams to forge paintings that appear to exist in a state of semi-consciousness. As such, depictions of faces share a vacant expression, suggestive of a mind not wholly present, and objects are superimposed over one another, in an out-of-joint logic that reproduces the liminal mental state between sleeping and waking. Topolewski explores the boundary between the abstract and the figurative: the combination of awkwardly cropped fragments, together with an atmosphere of muffled...