Agustina Cesana

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Agustina Cesana is a clinical psychologist whose practice has become increasingly intertwined with artistic research. Far from having a formal artistic background, her work stems from years of supporting therapeutic processes grounded in pause, observation, and deep listening.

In her clinical practice, she began to pay particular attention to the poetic flashes that emerge in everyday conversations: fragments that appear unexpectedly when discussing routines, heartbreak, relationships, loss, or family life. She began anonymously collecting these resonances: phrases that reveal the beauty and contradictions of the human experience.

Over time, this exploration transcended the therapeutic space and became part of her daily life. Through frequent travel and journeys, she gathers similar moments in casual conversations, books, and images. Her phone camera and notebooks serve as tools for documenting and recording what she understands as a poetics of reality: impulsive accumulations of words and images that don’t seek obvious beauty or the decisive moment, but rather linger on the margins—disordered objects, underlined phrases, trivial gestures, scenes that often go unnoticed.

Positioned as an observer and witness to other people’s lives, her work moves within the tension between intimacy and otherness, questioning whether one can exist without the other. She is interested in transforming these fragments into shared forms that enable dialogue and collective reflection.