Filip Lav (b. 1991) lives and works between London and Vienna. Filip Lav’s paintings are embodied contradictions, a paradox consisting of equal amounts of irony and sincerity.

The figures are frequently painted flat, while their backgrounds are highly layered. In this way, his painting process is a performative paradox, where one can encounter various displacements of speed and slowness, planning, and spontaneity.

Nothing is what it appears at first glance. The gestural drawings are highly choreographed, while the bold brushstrokes are carefully multi-layered surfaces.