Caitlin Mary Margarett

performance art | photography & video | narrative | contemporary craft

Through the combination of antiques and handmade objects, CMM generates memoir and autotheory based work that invokes apparitions; that which cannot be recovered or fully known. By using nostalgia and solastalgia, her cyclical, symmetrical, and hyper-repetitive performative projects demand the analysis of ancestry and trauma, queerness and desire, and the future as we brace for the full impact of the climate crisis and our eroding democracies.

& there is no moving on,

I carry it all with me;

“These antique mirrors have witnessed much more than I have; silver tableaux of presence and absence. Fragmented moments of ascent and abstinence.

When I reflect on who I have been and what I have done in order to try and secure something safe, even if in that search I have severely harmed myself, I am equal parts mortified and grounded.”

100 Days V.II. 2021.

A part of the 100 Days Project.

emerge

merge

re-emerge

100 Days V. I - V.III

Est. 2020.

pilgrimage solastalgia nostalgia

Using my Danish maternal ancestral line as an interface, I investigate language, economic, cultural, & religious evolution. The 100 Days project is a recurrent investigation into themes of a sociopolitical nature, immigration, poverty, and forsaken technologies.

100 Days continues in 2025, with further investigations of space, movement, and memory.