Marlon Mullen at Massimo de Carlo

Texture, texture is in a main focus. A lush foamy one, making meta-text paintings look a bit like ice cream cakes. Marlon Mullen has autistic spectrum disorder and aphasia, which is worth mentioning in this case because the paintings are main parts of the perceiving and expressing communication path. Look closely and you may see layers of colours, letters and images, sunken and overpainted remnants of spoken words and shared thoughts.
(But can we also talk about how difficult it is to stop yourself from touching surfaces of artworks? Can I receive hardship pay of some sort? My will power isn’t unlimited!)

Exhibition period: 15 July—31 August
Gallery address: 3/F, Pedder Building, Central