SOUL ELIXER
October 25 - December 6, 2025
Opening: Saturday November 1, 4 - 7 pm
Soul Elixir presents new works by Joe Fleming alongside the work of guest artists from Greece Kildi Drasa and Shekine Naidi. The artists met in Athens, in spring 2025, and their encounter sparked a dialogue across diverse practices and cultural perspectives.
The exhibition explores form, light, and surface, revealing how materials and visual language mediate experience. Fleming navigates abstraction and media culture; Drasa merges figuration with urban memory; Naidi transforms natural materials to connect geological and cultural narratives. Together, their works create a conceptual “elixir”.
Joe Fleming is a Canadian artist whose recent work examines how the pervasive influence of mass media shapes contemporary culture. Fleming blurs the boundaries between the hand-made and the mechanical and works across a range of mediums, including painting, video, and digital art. His paintings are particularly striking in their ability to manipulate light: layered surfaces allow illumination to pass through, casting shifting shadows onto the wall and activating the space beyond the painting.
Fleming’s career spans over two decades, marked by numerous solo exhibitions internationally in galleries in major cities, including Singapore, Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary, and New York City. Fleming has lectured at universities in Canada, the United States, and South East Asia since 1993. His paintings are included in numerous public and private collections, such as BMO Financial Group, Trmark Mutual Funds, Honeywell Bull, Prince Waterhouse Coopers (Malaysia), HSBC Bank, A.T. Tolley Collection, Australian High Commission, Canadian High Commission (Kuala Lumpur), the Art Gallery of Edmonton, the Museum of Civilization (Hull, Quebec), and the Holocaust Museum (LA). Fleming has exhibited in several international art fairs, including Art Stage (Singapore), FIAC (Paris), Arte Cologne (Germany), Scope (New York and Miami), Art Miami, Papier (Montreal), and Art Toronto. His work has been featured in publications, such as Carte Blanche 2: Painting - a survey of new Canadian painting (The Magenta Foundation), 60 Painters in Canada, The Artist’s Studio (by Joseph Hartman), American Illustration, Imago Mundi, Design Lines Magazine, Azure Magazine, The Globe and Mail, Now Magazine, Chelsea Now, and The Wall Street Journal Magazine.
Joe Fleming, Soul Eliker, enamel, screen printing and collage on polycarbonate, 24 x 18 inches
Kildi Drasa, Portrait Analog, ink on plywood, 8 x 8 inches, 2025
Kildi Drasa is a visual artist based in Athens. He holds both a BFA and an MFA in Visual Arts from the Athens School of Fine Arts and has exhibited widely in Greece and internationally. His recent solo exhibition Sunnies was presented at The Breeder Feeder, Athens, May 2025.
Working across painting and sculpture, Drasa explores the conditions under which light emerges through technological materials. His process has a “hacking” sensibility—he intervenes in the internal mechanisms of modern printing machines, redirecting them from their intended functions. Through these experiments, he investigates the relationship between the ways we construct visual and cultural narratives and the ways colour and light are produced.
Shekine Naidl, Light, White Marble, 6.5 x 7.5 inches, 2025
Shekine Naidi (Greek-Iranian) is a visual artist whose practice explores the transformation of natural materials, with a particular focus on marble, minerals, and wool. Her work investigates the intersections of materiality, mythology, and the eco-transition, creating new narratives that connect geological and cultural histories.
Shekine studied at the Department of Fine and Applied Arts, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, and at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Carrara, Italy (until 2022). She graduated from the MET postgraduate program at the Athens School of Fine Arts in February 2025.
Her work has been shown internationally, including at MOMus, Thessaloniki; the Nazim Hikmet Cultural Center, Istanbul; and the Virgilio Sieni Center, Florence. In 2018, she was awarded a prize in the “Eternity” art competition, curated by Maurizio Cattelan.
Alongside her studio practice, she organizes wool-processing workshops for participants with and without disabilities. Recently, she received a grant from the Greek Ministry of Culture for a research-based artistic project at the lignite mines of Ptolemaida, reflecting on the mythic, ecological, and material dimensions of the landscape.