Ai Ozaki (1991, Saitama, Japan) is a visual artist who works with video, photography, ceramics, painting, and text, to investigate the ways her body interacts with ‘the Other’. This does not only include people, but all living things – and even herself. She often notices that people do not understand each other and are distant from themselves and the world surrounding them. We don’t know what birds are thinking, for example, or how our own bodies function, we cannot even control our own organs. In her practice, she is interested in imagining communication with these close yet so far away and incomprehensible beings and things. She aims to puzzle together a picture of the ways in which people attempt to gain an understanding of these bodily functions and the myriad of ways in which we try to connect to ourselves and the beings around us.
Ozaki participated in the In Situ Residency at Cité internationale des arts, Paris (2024–2025), supported by the Daniel et Nina Carasso Foundation, after completing her residency at Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten (2022–2024). She studied Painting at Tokyo Zokei University (2017). Her work has been exhibited in multiple group shows, including Cité internationale des arts (Paris), Galerie Balice Hertling (Paris), ONOMATOPEE (Eindhoven), EENWERK Gallery (Amsterdam) and Art Center Ongoing (Tokyo). She participated in the film screening program of the 7th Bangkok Experimental Film Festival. Written by Lara den Hartog Jager and Ai Ozaki.
