Marcel Vidal's coded gestures and fragmented truths open at Kerlin Gallery

Kerlin Gallery opened blue moon shadow, an exhibition of new paintings by Marcel Vidal. Marcel Vidal’s paintings are marked by their controlled brushwork, layering oil on linen with delicacy and precision, creating moments of familiar yet unsettling beauty. They are refined and restrained, incarnating brightly lit fragments of photographs, digital images. Hands move and gesticulate through the exhibition; bracing in delicate clasps, blocking identities, reaching towards the viewer. Vibrant colours punctuate the exhibition, a glossy umbrella sits in front of a blue sky, a neon hat on an elusive figure, the royal blue of a cropped shoulder. Vidal’s minimal compositions are severely cropped to reveal only a sliver of their subject, using ambiguity to frustrate interpretation, all the while inviting our curiosity. “Drawing from personal photographs, online archives,