Amélie Bouvier

Antwerp Art Weekend

18 - 21 May 2023

Represented by Harlan Levey Projects

Born in 1982 – France Lives and works in Brussels, Belgium

Amélie Bouvier’s artistic practice builds from historical research in the field of astronomy to question issues related to cultural memory and collective heritage. Astronomers in particular, and scientists in general, don’t only explain the world, they also represent it through the construction of diagrams, illustrations, photographs or equations. For Bouvier, scientific imagery is an extension of knowledge that reveals ideological and ethical frameworks, which risk cloaking aspects of the reality they aim to represent. She is particularly interested in the sky and stars as a landscape that exposes current socio-political contradictions and knowledge gaps. While her work is based on historical facts, data and visuals, she consistently mixes this with speculative imagery, adapting tools and techniques to present alternative potentialities.

Antwerp Art Weekend

26—29 MAY 2022

artists

Amélie Bouvier

Amélie Bouvier (b. 1982, France) lives and works in Brussels, Belgium. Her practice focuses on scientific imagery and discoveries, as well as the lacunae in knowledge and
how we fill them through popular imagination, anecdotes, and other fictions. Working primarily with astronomy, Bouvier’s laborious drawings examine the myths we create around scientific data and discovery. She has had several noteworthy exhibitions including those at The Arsenal Gallery (Bialystok, PL), Aomori Contemporary Art Center (Aomori, JP), Sesc Ipiranga (São Paulo, BR), Museo Patio Herreriano (Valladolid, ES), Sabrina Amrani Gallery (Madrid, ES), the Verbeke Foundation (Kemzeke, BE) and Museu Da Cidade (Lisbon, PT). Her work has been included in the 16th Cerveira International Art Biennial (PT) and she is the winner of the 2016 Hors-d’oeuvre prize, awarded by ISELP (Brussels, BE). In addition to her personal work, Amélie is co-founder of Uncertainty Scenarios, a project hosted by Enough Room for Space.

Represented by Harlan Levey Projects