Born 1998 in Sydney, Australia. Lives and works in Melbourne on stolen Wurundjeri country.

Oskar Backent is a printmaker, Video Artist and Drawer.

Backent’s practice attempts to categorise and make sense of personal histories, pop culture and its influences in aesthetically uncanny forms.

Through pirating pre-existing modes of cultural production: his work seeks to confront the possibilities of being shaped by the content that is pirated and gleaned from.

Broken computer monitors and 2000s digital photo screens are utilised to contrast drypoint printmaking forms; creating a tension between the traditional and the technologically obsolete.

Engaging with forms of connection and disconnection, looping and building, an immersive display of developing influences are put on full display.

Backent’s work is concerned with constructed and absorbed realities, technological obsolescence and the rise of Retromania: a cultural obsession with nostalgia, with humour and a playful perspective being integral to his approach.