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 attentiveness and sustained presence within material and spatial conditions. She situates herself in specific environments — from exposed landscapes to constructed systems — where subtle gestures and stillness render perceptible how forces move through space: gravity, weather, infrastructure, memory, and atmospheric change.

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Time in her practice is layered rather than linear. Geological and climatic 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, the work remains open, allowing uncertainty and interdependence to unfold across human and more-than-human worlds.

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She holds an MA in Image & Communication and an MFA in Fine Art from Goldsmiths, University of London, and an MA in Sound Studies from Universität der Künste Berlin.