Arthur Cordier, María José Crespo and Amir Torres Darwich
January 16 till February 13, 2026
Opening: Friday, January 16 from 18:00 till 22:00
C A S S T L in collaboration with BURO_ASAP present FADE OUT, a group exhibition curated by Jesse Siegel.
FADE OUT brings together three artists, Arthur Cordier, María José Crespo and Amir Torres Darwich, whose works explore traces left behind in a world saturated by media and consumer culture: fragments of thought, memory, and materiality. The exhibition is contextualized with a text by Abril Cisneros Ramírez.
Rather than presenting critique in grand gestures, FADE OUT lingers in the messy boundaries, the slightly damaged, the overlooked critical remnants that survive under the weight of spectacle. The works resist erasure by confronting saturation head-on and by tracing its aftermath: informational debris that is reformulated. These critical remnants are fractured, often unconscious traces of individuality that survive the overwhelming forces of ideological conformity, offering a faint, but vital, possibility of resistance within a largely administered world.
In a moment when our attention is relentlessly managed and monetized, the artworks offer a collective sign towards what remains after all the noise fades. They suggest that even within a world designed to exhaust and absorb us, sometimes there are persistent fragments of freedom, memory, and critical thought, waiting to be noticed.
Artist Statements
Arthur Cordier (b. 1993, BE) worked in an advertising agency, he hates advertising. From the experience remained a constant interest in the study of urban and commercial trickery – also known in French as roublardise. To reveal the economical construct of urban contexts, he uses the effectiveness of commercial strategies against itself in a tautological and often parasitic manner.
To a further extent he tackles the aesthetics of bureaucracy, entrepreneurship, and efficiency through relational, situational and contextually specific works, self-reflecting upon the economy of artistic practice in a production-driven society.
María José Crespo (b. 1991, MX) completed a BA in Fine Art at the Universidad Autónoma de Baja California in Tijuana and a MA in Fine Art at Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam. Her current research investigates how the porous space between territory, language, limits, and the body can be understood by extending their relations as gestures. By questioning how she inhabits certain boundaries as a woman, she is interested in studying remains and traces that administrative powers leave behind in unclear territories.
Her latest installation Female Flickers revolves around the story of avisadoras, female messengers who flashed messages with a vanity mirror across the border between Mexico and USA during the Mexican Revolution (1910-17). Most of the avisos were daily life communication, but as well warnings, for example to inform the approaching of the early border patrol.
Amir Torres Darwich (b. 1996, MX) Graduated from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp, both in Fashion and Printmaking. Since then, he has been teaching fashion illustration and navigating his creative desires. When making art he likes to explore the world of beauty and all of its implications. Everything can exist, be questioned and praised within its conceptual frame.
He would like to invite the viewer to a different visual reality with new possibilities. A reality where if it is only for a moment, we can allow ourselves to see contemporary visual culture as what it is, a hyper complex fairytale that's a product of our collective imagination. The main unreliable characters of this fairytale are of course, taste, composition and meaning. These concepts usually are explored through a mix of textile, assemblage, and drawing.
About BURO_ASAP
At BURO_ASAP we support contemporary art and culture, both in Belgium and internationally. We provide a platform where artists can show their work to a diverse audience, encourage artistic interaction and explore different art forms. Through exhibitions, publications and collaborations, we aim to make art more accessible and promote dialogue about contemporary art practices, focusing on both local and international art scenes.
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Jesse Siegel (b. 1984, MX) is an artist and organizer based between Antwerp and Amsterdam. He has produced exhibitions across Europe, Asia, Africa, and North America through collective projects including Worksound International, blackpuffin, and BASEMENT. In 2024, he co-founded the Antwerp-based non-profit BURO_ASAP with Vanessa Van Obberghen. Most recently, he was involved in the itinerant artist-initiated exhibition Fairy Tales, which traveled from Belgium to Korea, Japan, and Spain.