His practice explores the relationship between time, memory, and identity, emphasizing how everyday experiences shape both personal and collective narratives.
Through sculpture and installation, he examines the shifting boundaries of visibility and remembrance, attending to what endures, fades, or remains in between. Ordinary objects serve as key points of entry, carrying intimate traces of lived experience while also evoking shared meanings, and revealing how significance evolves over time. Situated between the intimate and the collective, his work reflects on proximity and distance, and on the persistence of connections to others, places, and the past despite temporal disruptions. By creating spaces where absence and presence intersect, he suggests that identity is fluid, formed through movement across time and relationships, with distance functioning not only as separation but also as a condition for renewed forms of connection and belonging.
gabriel.cautain@gmail.com
@gabrielcautain
Education
2020-2022 UAL Central Saint Martins, London - MA Contemporary Photography; Practices and Philosophies (Distinction)
2015-2019 BTK University of Europe for Applied Sciences, Berlin - BA Photography
Selected Exhibitions
2025 - Wake @ New Art Projects, London, UK
2025 - Some of us live in cities so we can be alone @ Hypha Studios, London, UK
2023 - Re-Kin Collective @ 2 Fotofestival, Dortmund, DE
2023 - Troubled Waters @ Galleria Lampo, Milan IT
2023 - Re-Kin Collective @ Photo Schweiz, Zurich, CH
2022 - ReA! Arte @ Fabbrica Del Vapore, Milan, IT
2022 - take me with you @ La Cambre Gallery, Brussels, BL
2022 - take me with you (part 2) ® The Koppel Project Hive, London, UK
2022 - MERCH @ Lethaby Gallery, London, UK
Awards, Grants and Residencies
2022 - Mullen Lowe NOVA Awards - Nominated
2022 - ReA! Arte - Exhibition Art Prize 2022
Publications
2024 - REVIEW magazine
Collection
UAL Art Collection - Archive and Special Collection