Emre Özakat, born in 1997, Instabul, Turkey lives and works in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Through his mixed-media practice, he investigates the anxieties of living in a world excessively politicized and media hyper-saturated with increasingly omnipresent surveillance, often as well questioning the credibility of the digital image in the 21st century through various methods of obscuring or manipulating digital images.
Özakat graduated in 2020 from Gerrit Rietveld Academie with a BA in VAV/Moving Image. Since then he has participated numerous projects such as, in Springboard Art Fair 2023 in Utrecht, and [Dis]comfort Food, The Grey Space in the Middle, The Hague, 2022-2023.