HELENE AMOUZOU
Autoportrait, Molenbeek.(2011)
Photographie argentique, noir et blanc,
papier Ilford Mulgrade FB Warmtone Glossy
24 x 30.5 cm
Born in Togo in 1969, Hélène Amouzou went into exile at the age of twenty-three. She passed through Germany, where she gave birth to her daughter, before arriving in Belgium in October 1997. There began a life of struggle, until she obtained her residence permit in 2009, before becoming a Belgian citizen in 2015. In 2004, Hélène Amouzou moved to Molenbeek-Saint-Jean - where she lived at the time - to take classes in video and photography at the local Académie de Dessin et des Arts visuels. Although she initially felt uneasy about the theme of self-portraiture, she gradually returned to it two years later, to devote herself fully to it. Her technique remains the same: silver photography, mainly in black and white.
GROUP SHOWS :
2023
- I See the Face of Things to Come, curated by Renée Mussai, PhotoIreland, Dublin (Irelande)
2022
- African Cosmologies: Redux, curated by Mark Sealy, FotoFest Biennial, Houston Museum of African American Culture, Houston (U.S.A.)
- Splendid Isolation, S.M.A.K., Gent (Belgium)
2021
- MAGMA, Triennial 10, Centre culturel d’Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve, Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium)
- Naître aux mondes, KIOSK, Gent (Belgium)
- Naître aux mondes, Les Rencontres d’Arles, Arles (France)
La folle danseuse ou les soucis domestiques, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Tournai (Belgique)
2018
- Where I Seek, I Find Myself, Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts, Brooklyn (U.S.A.)
- Some Things Hidden, Framer Framed, Amsterdam (Pays Bas)
2015
- Look at me!, Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam (Pays Bas)
2011
- Photoquai 11, Musée du Quai Branly, Paris (France)
- Non pas ce soir, Musée d’Ixelles, Brussels (Belgique)
- Reflections on the Self: Five African Women Photographers, Hayward
2010
- Prix Médiatine, Wolubilis, Brussels (Belgique)
SOLO SHOWS :
2023
- Hélène Amouzou: Voyages, curated by Bindi Vora, Autograph, Londres, UK
- Writing Without Words: The Autoportraits of Hélène Amouzou, curated by Mark Sealy, CONTACT Photography Festival, Toronto (Canada)
2022
- Espaces-temps, Centre culturel Jacques Franck, Brussels (Belgium)
- Voyages intérieurs: The Photographs of Hélène Akouavi Amouzou, the women’s darkroom, Brooklyn (U.S.A.)
- Entre temps, FOMU, Anvers (Belgique)
2020
- Identities in Motion (with Yun-Tien Chu), the intersection project, Brussels (Belgium)
2017
- Entre le papier peint et le mur, Centre culturel Jacques Franck, Brussels
2010
- Entre le papier peint et le mur, Théâtre de Namur (Belgium)
- Autoportrait : nostalgie, questionnements, doute ?, B-Gallery,Centrale for Contemporary Art, Brussels (Belgium)
2009
- Autoportraits, Maison des Cultures de Molenbeek-Saint-Jean, Bruxelles (Belgium)
2016
- Segou’Art Solo Show | Off du Salon d’art Contemporain du Mali
Publications :
Renée Mussai, Eyes That Commit: Black Women and Non-Binary Photographers: A Visual Survey, London-New York, Prestel, 2023
Marc Sealy (Dir.), African Cosmologies. Photography, Time and the Other, Houston, FotoFest /Amsterdam, Schilt Publishing, 2020
Laylah Amatullah Barrayn & Adama Delphine Fawundu, MFON: Women Photographers of the African Diaspora, New York, Eye & I Incorporated, 2017
Christine Eyene, Where We’re At! Other Voices on Gender, Milano, Silvana, 2014.
Hélène Amouzou, Entre le papier peint et le mur, Brussels, Husson Éditeur, 2010.
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