Aleksandra Kozak

Aleksandra Kozak’s practice draws heavily on the emotional undercurrents of daily life, translating feelings and impressions into images that are both intimate and slightly uncanny. Her works rarely present themselves as fixed narratives. Instead, they emerge from fragments of memory, shifts in mood, or fleeting associations that resist easy explanation. This approach allows her drawings and paintings to carry an openness that invites the viewer to linger, to search, and to recognize something of themselves in her scenes.

Homeless

Language is an important companion in her process. She often pairs her visual work with short texts or poems that extend the atmosphere of the image rather than explain it. These words act as quiet echoes, suggesting another layer of meaning while leaving the central experience intact. The result is a body of work that is at once visual and literary, unfolding in two registers that complement and complicate one another.

After Long Day

This Head Does Not Belong to Me

Her imagery often takes on a surreal or dreamlike quality, where figures seem caught between recognition and distortion. Works such as “This Head Does Not Belong to Me” and “Nowhere” encapsulate this tension, reflecting a sense of displacement that feels both personal and universal. The characters she creates are not portraits in the traditional sense but states of being given form. They capture solitude, fragility, and the search for connection, without resolving these feelings into neat answers.

Kozak’s practice also carries a fairy-tale element, though one that is far removed from the polished surface of children’s stories. Her visual worlds lean into strangeness and ambiguity, offering moments of unease alongside tenderness. The combination of delicate line, muted color, and sparse but powerful detail builds spaces where sadness, humor, and vulnerability intersect.

Nowhere

What makes her work stand out is its refusal to close down interpretation. She provides enough of her own world—through text, image, and mood—for us to enter, but the meaning remains fluid, shifting with each encounter. In this way, her practice becomes less about fixed statements and more about shared recognition, about making room for feelings that are often left unspoken. Through this balance of image and language, clarity and ambiguity, Aleksandra Kozak offers a personal yet accessible body of work.