Borja Cáceres is the creator of CHRONOX, an artistic practice grounded in physical engagement, slowness, and close attention to material. His work is based on an approach that learns through making, understands through observation, and accompanies the processes embedded within wood.

His journey begins in the mountains, collecting fragments of dead wood shaped by time, climate, and natural processes of decay.

Since 2018, he has travelled into high-mountain environments to recover fallen tree fragments formed over decades by growth, storms, frost, and erosion. Each piece contains a material history whose formation has required far more time than any human intervention could ever reproduce. Back in the studio, he spends years working on each fragment, carefully carving into the internal structure of the wood, where records of growth accumulated over time remain visible. His intervention does not seek to impose a form, but to reveal relationships and structures already present within the material itself.

His practice does not develop from design, but from observation. Each piece emerges through a prolonged physical process of observation and manual intervention. His work questions notions of authorship, the value of time in creation, and the relationship between matter, record, and permanence.

Rather than producing objects, Borja maintains an ongoing relationship with wood based on attention and sustained labour. His practice does not pursue immediate answers or passing trends. It is a long-term investigation into what time leaves inscribed within matter.