His practice investigates the relationship between time, memory, and identity, paying particular attention to the ways in which everyday experiences shape both personal and collective narratives. Through sculptures and installations, Cautain explores the fragile boundaries of visibility and memory, tracing what remains vivid, what fades away, and what lingers in between.
Ordinary objects often serve as points of entry. They bear intimate traces of lived experience while also resonating collectively. At once familiar and shifting, these objects reveal how meanings are constantly redefined over time. Situated within this tension between the intimate and the collective, his work reflects on how one navigates proximity and distance, closeness and separation. It considers the ways connections to others, to places, and to one’s past persist despite the inevitable interruptions of time. His works create spaces where absence and presence overlap, encouraging reflection on the networks of connection and disconnection that shape our lives.
Ultimately, Cautain’s practice suggests that identity is not fixed but fluid, formed in the movement between near and far, past and present, self and other. In this unstable terrain, distance emerges not only as a dividing force but also as a condition for renewed proximity, opening up new forms of belonging and remembrance.
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