Time to Pretend

Time to Pretend is a solo exhibition by the Basel-based painter Niko Fuchs (*1996) at the offspace Le Grain in Geneva. The show unveils a new series of oil paintings in which Fuchs explores how interior drives, personal memories, everyday surroundings and close relationships collide with the ceaseless flow of contemporary images and narratives, shaping an identity that remains in constant motion. Fragmented backgrounds and unresolved silhouettes point to a world of tangible illusions, where every fresh stimulus has the power to tilt what we take for real. Together, these elements situate Time to Pretend as a reflection on the porous boundary between lived experience and mediated appearance in an information-saturated age.