Statement

I work with embodied listening and duration, situating my body within environments where time, material, and relation come under pressure. In these situations — across exposed landscapes, elemental materials, and spatialised language — tension is sustained rather than resolved, allowing underlying conditions to surface through presence and restraint.

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Biography

Ina Otzko (b. 1972, Norway) is a multidisciplinary artist working across performance, moving image, photography, sound, sculpture, installation, and text. She lives and works in Norway and Italy.

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Her practice unfolds through sustained presence and attentiveness to material and spatial conditions. She works within specific environments — from exposed landscapes to constructed systems — where subtle gestures and stillness make perceptible how forces move through space: gravity, weather, infrastructure, memory.

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Time in her work is layered rather than linear. Geological processes, language, industrial materials, and the living body intersect, creating situations in which trust, vulnerability, and belonging emerge as shifting conditions rather than fixed states. Rather than resolving tension, her works remain open, sustaining uncertainty and interdependence across human and non-human worlds.

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