Josiane M. H. Pozi

Josiane M.H Pozi (b. 1998, London) is a visual artist and filmmaker based in London. Pozi creates affecting video works as moments of emotional truth and experience. They are truly of and for the digital age, holding our technologised present up to the light, marvelling in all its warmth, its grime, its stillness. Pozi explores life’s most mundane moments and presents them in a way that takea on greater meaning: her raw, lo-fi depictions of simple exchanges with her father or a night drinking with friends lay bare feelings of separation, loneliness, and anxiety brought to the surface in a world obsessed with capturing every second on our phones. 

While Pozi often appears on camera, visually or audibly, it is her connection to the various subjects who share her screen that creates frisson in the absence of traditional cinema’s “coherent narrative,” instead forming a loose portrait of the artist in close relations. Her vignettes describe a kind of social diegesis unfolding in real time for the auteur. Without marking a strict dichotomy between authenticity and artifice, Pozi’s inversion of video and experience is a precise post-cinematic perspective on the hypertrophied feedback loop of performativity that haunts the contemporary period. 

Pozi received a BA in Fine Art from Goldsmiths University (2021). 

Solo exhibitions include ‘Through my fault’, Carlos/Ishikawa, London (2023); ‘Reunion’, Galerie Buchholz, Berlin (with Klein) (2021); ‘75 Cornwall Court’, Carlos/Ishikawa, London (2021); ‘PINGEY’, Gandt, New York (2020). Her work has been featured in group exhibitions at Kunstmuseum St.Gallen (forthcoming) (2024); 243 Luz, Margate (2023); Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn (2022); Fons Welters, Amsterdam (2022);Lismore Castle Arts, Co. Waterford (2022); Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf (2022); Carré de Beaudoin, Paris (2021); The Shed, New York (2021); Stadtgalerie Bern, Bern (2021); St Augustine’s Tower, London (2021); Somerset House, London (2021); Conceptual Fine Arts, Milan hosting Damien & The Love Guru, Brussels (2021); Kunsthaus Glarus, Glarus (2021); Safehouse 1, London (2019). 

Selected performances and screenings include Serpentine Park Nights, Serpentine Galleries, London (2022); Auto Italia, London (2022); South London Gallery (2019); Tate Modern, London (2018). Pozi’s work has been featured in articles for Frieze Magazine, Wallpaper, Art Viewer, and Contemporary Art Society. Pozi has created music videos, concert visuals and footage for other projects by musicians including Klein, Moses Boyd, Jawnino, and Four Tet.

Josiane M.H Pozi is represented by Carlos/ Ishikawa.