Casting Days

Casting Days is a duo exhibition by the two visual artists Gaia Del Santo (*1999) and Simon Pellegrini (*1997) at the artist-run off space Burned Out in Basel. Together, the two artists explore contemporary mechanisms of staging and how narratives shape and contain our perception. In a world characterized by global, intricately connected markets and rapid change, narratives function as a means for constructing, understanding, and documenting personal and collective experiences, be it as headlines, tweets, Instagram stories, advertisements, or myths. Their aesthetic-affective power, in particular, is central to the artworks realized for this show. 
The exhibited works are accompanied by a text contribution by the Basel-based artist Mia Sanchez. The flyer for the exhibition was made by the Zurich-based graphic designer Noel Oppliger.