A MATTER OF METAMORPHOSIS

Sala Espositiva di Casarsa della Delizia, IT
12 April – 27 July 2025
Solo Exhibition, Curated by Sandrine Welte and Pasquale Lettieri

Casarsa della Delizia is where Pier Paolo Pasolini's mother was born, where he spent formative years as a young poet, and where he is buried. In 2025, fifty years after his death, the town honoured him with an exhibition of contemporary art – and with it a writer Pasolini himself had called upon: “Kafka, we need Kafka”, he wrote in 1951.

Simon Berger's works take up themes from Kafka's The Metamorphosis: solitude, alienation and a sense of disconnection. Through fractured glass, Berger gives these themes a physical form, in a dialogue between past and present.

The exhibition was conceived as a journey through transformation, isolation and hope. At its heart stood an immersive setting of freestanding glass panels and technological elements, in the town's former council chamber, a space designed by the architect Gino Valle.

A Matter of Metamorphosis was part of TrasformARTI: Art as a Tool to Imagine the Future, a cultural project exploring change in society.

Credits

Organised by the Municipality of Casarsa della Delizia, with the support of the Autonomous Region of Friuli Venezia Giulia

In collaboration with Cris Contini Contemporary, the Pier Paolo Pasolini Study Center Casarsa, Pro Casarsa della Delizia APS, Contemporary&Co and the Enrico Galvani State Art High School

Project management: Sandra Sanson

Photography: © Jessica Zufferli