Adam Filek

Pockets Lined With Basalt

March 5-15th

Opening reception with durational performance March 5th, 6-9pm

No Foundation presents emerging Toronto-based artist Adam Filek in his first solo exhibition.

Adam Filek's practice uses the mediums of live and documented performance, using the body as a tool within his work to synthesize a connectivity with the viewer, convey connectivity with the self, and explore the physical and mental limits of the body. His current work focuses an injection of the soul into landscape and object, using absurd gesture and repetition to depict a body placed in a state of purgatory.

Pockets Lined With Basalt is an investigation into the passive action of carrying a stone in the pocket, how its presence weighs the body down, and how the simple pull of gravity causes the body to descend ever so more closer to death.

Previous works by the artist can be viewed at http://www.adamfilek.com