URBAN PRACTICE AND CONTEMPORARY POSITIONS

Ouchy, also known as Ouch370, is an international multidisciplinary traveling artist whose practice originates from graffiti and graphic design. His artistic development began with early involvement in urban lettering and style writing and later expanded through formal design methodologies and contemporary visual culture.

His career emerged in the mid-2000s through classic graffiti practices in public space, where repetition, rhythm, and spatial awareness played a central role. Over time, his focus shifted from spontaneous urban intervention toward a more structured engagement with composition, abstraction, and visual systems, while maintaining a strong connection to graffiti’s raw aesthetics and spatial logic.

Parallel to mural and illustration work, Ouchy developed a self-taught tattoo practice. Since relocating his focal point of life to Southeast Asia, tattooing, graphic design, and illustration have increasingly influenced each other. His current graphic and illustrative work is strongly shaped by tattoo principles such as symbolic reduction, line clarity, and iconic form. At the same time, his tattoo practice draws directly from graphic design thinking and abstract illustration strategies, creating a continuous exchange between skin, wall, and surface.

Today, his work spans murals, illustrations, site-specific installations, and tattooing. His artistic output is visible across Europe and Southeast Asia and is frequently realized in non-traditional or abandoned spaces, where architecture, history, and context become integral components of the work.

ARTIST STATEMENT

Ouchy’s practice explores the intersection of urban visual language, abstraction, and contemporary social environments. Central to his work is the balance between consistency and experimentation, using repetition as a structural and conceptual tool.

A key aspect of his approach is the integration of surrounding context into the work itself. Architectural conditions, traces of use, and the historical background of a site directly inform his compositions. Rather than treating walls as neutral surfaces, he approaches them as carriers of memory, allowing place, function, and previous narratives to shape form and imagery.

He works primarily with wall paint and spray paint, applied using rollers, brushes, and airless paint systems. This process enables fast execution at scale while maintaining a direct physical engagement with the surface. Reduced color palettes, figurative elements, and graphic compositions are used to construct visual narratives that respond to both spatial and historical environments.

By combining influences from graffiti culture, graphic design, tattoo art, and abstract illustration, Ouchy’s work operates between structure and intuition, permanence and impermanence. His practice reflects an ongoing dialogue between digital systems and physical space, shaped by movement, location, and cultural exchange.