From issue: #27 Emerging Talent
Anieya Cauthen, i got a lot to be mad about
Anieya Cauthen’s ongoing project, i got a lot to be mad about, explores photography as a process that expands beyond the frame, embracing interdisciplinarity as both method and meaning. The work is rooted in the complexity of memory, how it forms, fragments, fades and resurfaces. Some memories are vivid and graspable, others elusive and shaped as much by forgetting as by recall. Cauthen approaches memory not as a fixed narrative but as a layered and shifting terrain, where the act of remembering becomes part of the memory itself. Cauthen examines the space between analogue and digital, between the material and the conceptual. Working iteratively, she revisits images and writings across multiple formats, observing how shifts in medium reshape meaning. Her process includes creating what she calls “false analogs,” combining photographs, screen recordings, prose, scanned objects and image-objects to explore how different surfaces hold emotional and sensory charge. In doing so, she reflects on how we hold, distort and reassign significance through form.
Cauthen is a visual artist whose practice spans photography, painting, drawing, filmmaking and graphic design. Her work often balances the intimate with the unresolved, resembling personal journal entries that become confrontational when scaled or recontextualised. She holds a BFA in Photography with a minor in Interdisciplinary African American Studies, and an MFA in Studio Art with a concentration in Photography and a minor in Museum Studies, both from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
