Jos Auzende, Marie Papazoglou & Amélie Bouvier
Jos Auzende is an artistic director and exhibition curator committed to showcasing emerging multidisciplinary artistic practices born from media and networks. With a degree in architecture from Paris, she cultivates project logics and visions driven by narratives. After launching Batofar, a venue for electronic cultures, and later La Gaîté Lyrique, an institution at the intersection of art, technology, and society, she became associate curator for the French Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale (2023), the KIKK Pavilion (Namur, 2024), LUX (Valence 2024-25), and the Maif Social Club (Paris, 2025).
Marie Papazoglou studied art history at the Free University of Brussels, before obtaining a master’s degree in museology and new media from the Faculty of Philosophy at Lyon III Jean Moulin University (France), under the supervision of Bernard Deloche. From 2010 to 2018, she was the artistic director of exhibitions at the Center for Contemporary Art Le Botanique (Brussels). She is currently developing exhibition projects in the field of visual arts, particularly photography, as an independent curator. An art critic and guest lecturer at the La Cambre art school (Brussels), she has also been responsible for the Brussels branch of the Stieglitz19 gallery, specializing in contemporary photography, since 2022.
Amélie Bouvier grew up in Portugal and studied at the Institute of Arts in Toulouse (France), where she obtained a DNSEP in 2008. She has participated in several exhibitions, notably at the Arsenał gallery (Białystok, Poland), the Aomori Contemporary Art Center (Japan), the Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles (Paris, France), the Chroniques Biennale 2022 (Aix-en-Provence, France), Sesc Ipiranga (São Paulo, Brazil), the Museo Patio Herreriano (Valladolid, Spain), the Verbeke Foundation (Kemzeke, Belgium), and the Museu Da Cidade (Lisbon, Portugal). Her work was included in the 16th Cerveira International Art Biennale (Portugal) and the Nova_XX Biennale (France). Her work is currently exhibited at the Pavilion (Namur, Belgium). The first publication dedicated to her work was published in 2024. She won the Hors-d'œuvre prize in 2016, awarded by ISELP (Brussels, Belgium) and was nominated for the OplinePrize (Paris, 2024). Today, Amélie lives and works in Brussels, and her work is represented by Harlan Levey Projects.
Staring Into the Night
As part of the group exhibition Stellar Scape, presented from June 22, 2024, to January 26, 2025, at the Pavillon in Namur, in which Amélie Bouvier is participating, curator Jos Auzende takes the opportunity of the publication of the visual artist’s book Staring Into the Night (Ed. H&F, 2024) to invite writer Marie Papazoglou to continue the conversation started in the artist’s studio and in the pages of the book, using a poetic and playful protocol of keywords/word-images. By invoking discoveries and analyzing the evolution of imaging technologies in both the ancient and recent history of astronomy, how can we consider artistic representations of the vast space-time of the universe as a tool for knowledge and reflection? This also offers an opportunity to explore other facets of Amélie Bouvier’s artistic approach.
