OLIVER CAIN

STATEMENT

Cain’s work initiates a conversation between avant-garde artistic production and human perceptions about queer sexuality. The creative process is essential, and each piece of art has its own identity and reason to exist, born from intimate personal experiences. Appropriated everyday objects transform stereotypes and famous art historical references become twisted. Cain brings these themes to light using appropriated everyday objects to transform stereotypes. The most prevalent of them - the humble banana. It’s a delicious, cheap addition to most people’s fruit bowls, with a phallic quality not even complete prudes can deny. Cain uses this fruit as well as a few others to handle serious topics with a light touch and taps into uncomfortable similarities shared with food - the human body is also organic matter, and like a banana or an eggplant, decays, bruises, and has a sell-by-date.