CAVIN LIM
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Quarter Life, 2025
Quarter Life reflects on how memories shift over time and how identity forms through reflection and personal history. It explores moments of looking back, where the past resurfaces in altered forms. The work considers how memory is constantly evolving, shaped by who we are in the present and what we feel in the act of remembering. By returning to the past through the process of remembering, we begin to see things differently. We can trace how memories have shifted, slipped away, and how it returns to us in quiet and unexpected ways.
The Lasalle Show 2025, Institute of Contemporary Arts Gallery
A small note
Quarter Life explores memory, time, self narrative through the lens of autoethnography and moving images. It maps my lived experiences and investigates how personal memories are recorded, reinterpreted and reshaped over time. Through recorded conversations with family I recall shared experiences and trace how memory shifts between internal and external retelling. By recording, manipulating, and layering conversations within moving images, I examine how memory is not fixed but an evolving, unstable construct shaped by time, perspective, and emotions. The use of looping and fragmentation reflects the distortion, gaps, and repetition that occur in recollecting these conversations, highlighting the gaps and distortions within my memory. The project also grapples with emotional states of loneliness, doubt, and nostalgia, common at the threshold of adulthood — questioning who keeps time, who preserves our histories, and how the small moments we overlook accumulate to define us. Through visual autoethnography, Quarter Life becomes not just an act of recording, but an act of reconnection, empathy, and personal reorientation.