Human De Filet Featuring: Olga Klimovitskaia, Kirill Basalaev, Yanzi
5th February 2025 – 9th February 2025
Filet Gallery
N1 7QP
Human De Filet delves into the complex boundaries between the physical and the immaterial, the past and the future, trauma and recovery. It invites us to perceive the body as a fragile construct in which the physical and digital merge, leaving behind traces — cracks, memories, and transitions. In an era where the notion of bodily exclusivity is fading, humans are no longer the sole bearers of pain, memory, or self-awareness.
The artworks in this exhibition transform the body, breaking it into parts, classifying its forms, and examining them through various lenses of trauma — personal, urban, and historical.
In the digital realm, pain becomes transferable, memories can be erased, and the past becomes mutable. The cracks on surfaces serve as powerful metaphors for our capacity to remember and forget. They resonate in city walls, peeling paint, and worn bodies — all speaking of memory striving to endure but yielding to digital replicas and simulations. This raises important reflections on how the body no longer suffers; yet, in this detachment, it also no longer truly lives.
Olga Klimovitskaia
Olga Klimovitskaia
Olga Klimovitskaia is a multimedia artist from Almaty, born in 1981 (Kazakhstan), and currently based in London. She graduated from the Iosif Bakshtein Institute of Contemporary Art (Russia) in 2017, completing the New Methods in Contemporary Art program. Olga is a co-founder and resident of APXIV, an artist-run collective and exhibition space. Her works have been featured in numerous group exhibitions, including the Parallel Program of the 6th Moscow International
Biennial of Young Art (2018), Copenhagen Art Week (2019), Land of Musem (2019),
Presence International Festival of Contemporary Photography (2019, 2020), Communities and Spaces (2019), First Altai Biennial of Contemporary Art (2020), the 7th International Public Art Festival Art Prospect (2020), Assuming Distance: Speculations, Fakes, and Predictions in the Age of the Coronacene (2021), the online programme of the Biennale Art for the Future (2022), and the 8th International Triennial of Textile Art (2024).
Kirill Basalaev
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Kirill Basalaev
Kirill Basalaev was born in 1988 in Siberia (Tomsk). He studied Art and Culture at Tomsk State University and Art Theory in Moscow. He currently lives and works in London.
Basalaev works with abstract paintings, sculptures, and video art, exploring memory through the prism of cities and human interaction with urban environments. The use of building materials such as cement, plaster, repair mesh, and enamel is essential to his practice, emphasizing the connection between his research themes and the surfaces of cities.
In his early practice, Basalaev photographed shards and cracks, replicating real walls onto canvas. Over time, his work evolved into a series of vibrant, layered pieces. By mixing plaster with acrylic, he transitioned away from the physicality of urban spaces and their direct connection to humanity, instead focusing on the sensory experience of place.
Yanzi
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Yanzi
Yanzi is a London-based visual artist specializing in new media. Originally trained in robotics and automation (2010), he transitioned to contemporary art and later completed The New Normal program at the Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture, and Design (2019).
Yanzi and his co-founded art group, Current, have been showcased globally, including at FutureTense (2023) in Hong Kong, where they received an Honorable Mention; the HK SZ Bi-City Biennale (2022); Deep Truth (2022) by Rijksmuseum Twenthe; Art Machines/2 by CityU in Hong Kong; the GOGBOT festival; Fake Me Hard in the Netherlands; and the Santa Fe Currents New Media Festival (2021). Additionally, Yanzi won the Berlin Music Video Award for Best Animation (2021).
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Human De Filet Featuring: Olga Klimovitskaia, Kirill Basalaev, Yanzi opens on the 5th of February 2025 until the 9th of February 2025 at Filet Gallery
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