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Gabriel Cautain


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I am Nicole Kidman, 2024
From the Doormat series
Doormat, paint
40x60cm



Remember you are nice and kind, 2024 / Je voulais te demander quelque chose, 2024
From the Doormat series
Doormat, paint
40x60cm



Out of the closet / into Jesus, 2023
From the Doormat series
Doormat, paint
40x60cm




Total freedom, 2024
From the Doormat series
Doormat, paint
40x60cm


Series of 50+ doormats with inscribed extracts from diaries and phone notes dating from 2017 til today.




Pool #3, 2023 
From the Pool series
Swimming pool, paint, silver coated wooden frame
42x59cm

                      Pool #2, 2023
                    From the Pool series
                    Swimming pool, paint, silver coated wooden frame
                    40x50cm





Pool #6, 2023
From the Pool Series
Swimming pool, paint, silver coated wooden frame
168x128cm


Series of folded, painted and framed paddling pools. Recurring erotic dreams involving former lovers in swimming pools are juxtaposed here with an unusual memory of my father telling me that he loved me when he taught me to swim. The pools in this series serve as anchor points for the exploration of dreams and memories, revealing themselves to be places of loss, love and desire.





tension (7), 2022
Denim jeans, steel wires, water, buckets, safety signs
Dimensions variable




tension (3), 2022
Denim jeans, steel wires, epoxy resin, water, safety signs
Dimensions variable
Installation view — ‘Troubled Waters’ @ Lampo Milano, May 2023


Installation consisting of multiple pairs of hanging jeans urinating on themselves. As the wet spots get bigger, drops continuously fall and accumulate on the floor and in the buckets.




I got petrol in the car, 2022
Multimedia - video, colour, sound, 00:05:50
50x50x50cm


Video installation featuring a close-up lip-sync performance. The footage is in low- quality and the sound has been edited and left acapella. The title of the work is taken from Kate Bush’s ‘You’re the one’ (1993)




Heaven, 2022 
Woodframe, ashes, condom
180x180cm






8pm (coming out), 2021
Vinyl banner, 75x300cm
Edition of 7 + 2 AP


Two vinyl banners bearing the words I found in a fortune cookie. The phrase was taken as a pretext to come out to my parents, with whom I precisely disclosed my sexuality on the day to come, at 8pm.




maman (erased), 2021
Multimedia - CD player, scratched CD with audio recording
30x30x30cm, 00:06:03 
Edition of 7 + 2 AP
UAL Art Collection - Archives and Special Collections Centre



Sound installation of a CD player with a scratched disc containing damaged audio recordings of my mother. I asked her if she could record herself saying things to me that she had never said, or things that she was too scared to say, knowing that I would never hear what she said on it. She agreed and sent me an 8-minute recording, which I then burned onto a CD and scratched to make it unreadable.