The Things Inside My Head Print

Ozaques (b.1996) is a visual artist and designer who has been working and living in Yogyakarta. Ozaques is a part of the Indonesia Community Care for Schizophrenia (KPSI) in Yogyakarta in 2020. Ozaques is loving to spread mental health awareness and humanity through the arts in an experimental, cross-disciplinary, collaborative and multi-medium approach. For Ozaques, art is not only about personal expression, but also interpersonal and cultural expressions. Thus, Ozaques will apportion his knowledge through the values of the arts to the society to aim well-being in life. Ozaques started his first exhibition in 2017 and in the same year he was involved in the International Internship Study program at Babaran Segaragunung Culture House, Indonesia. From 2018 to 2019, Ozaques actively participated in art exhibitions in Indonesia. Then in 2020, Ozaques was selected to participate in the Post-skilled Artist (SPt) residency program at Padepokan Seni Bagong Kussudiardja (PSBK), Indonesia and has also participated in exhibitions in Indonesia, Pakistan, Germany, New Jersey, and Ecuador. Then in 2021, Ozaques was involved in a digital art collaborative project held by Shoebox Arts, Los Angeles and also had the opportunity to publish an experimental-based collaborative art project “Mental Illness and Creativity” in The Muse Magazine, Mc Master University, Canada. Currently, Ozaques is involved in the short film project “Suluk Ambatik” organized by Babaran Segaragunung Culture House, Indonesia. In addition, Ozaques is also involved in the Open Art Class program: Developing Power & Critical Thinking in the Art Making of Based Research facilitated by Inkubator Inisiatif, Indonesia.