Since Ozaques started his art in 2016 and started his first exhibition in 2017, he has always been very ambitious to explore artistic elements and also learn a lot of mediums. Ozaques builds his skills by self-taught and adds insight into the arts through non-formal classes. His life experiences so far have brought his work to an ambivalent horizon.

 

The ambivalence in Ozaques' artwork that you're looking at here is an extension of an idea that hasn't been revealed by him, namely a digital evaluation and reproduction of personality that has been brought out of hiding in social and technological circles. This extension is also the result of all the achievements of Ozaques' career as a visual artist who often involves digital technology in his creative process. Ozaques recreated these works in order to evaluate his artistic approach; How the concrete closeness between his personal experience, his digital artistic practice, and also his social culture.

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The evaluation process that Ozaques has carried out brings his current works which tend to illustrate a very personal experience. Ozaques presents deforming figures of people, animals, insects as a metaphor for the irony, tragedy, and dramatization that Ozaques experienced during his life.

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Let’s see two of his works that illustrate the irony in his experience as a factory laborer entitled “Work Hard to See Flower” and things in the social environment around him “So Close But, I Did Not See and Speak”. In his work entitled "Work Hard to See Flower", he illustrates his experience of laborers who feel oppressed, but also continue to work hard there to support themselves and their families". And the work entitled "So Close But, I Did Not See and Speak", illustrates how his personality in his social environment seems apathetic, but instead he just wants to be together without conflict and live side by side in peace.

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Things about irony, tragedy, and drama are not only reflected by Ozaques from his past experiences, but also something he is still experiencing in the present. For him, the past could be black, and it could be white also. It is part of the source of knowledge about how we see our own experiences, such as whether the past or present is seen as a source of inspiration or as something gloomy and should be forgotten. In other words, through these works, Ozaques wants to invite you to recall an irony, tragedy and drama in your past experience that is still ongoing today, but you are trying to stop it from presenting a completely new you in the world, to live in well being in the future.

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