Love is Louder proclaims the title of our major autumn exhibition. And Bozar’s Talks & Debates programme will have us doing exactly that: singing the praises of love at the tops of our voices. An array of guests are shining their enlightened minds on a subject that finds itself, like never before, at the intersection of the public and private.
No one demonstrates this better than Edouard Louis, Didier Eribon and Geoffroy de Lagasnerie who, in their thinking and work, explore the line between friendship and a love that fights for the right to exist. They open our new season in the great hall with a keynote address and a soon-to-be legendary discussion.
Ovidie shares her thirst for liberation, a rallying cry for breaking free of love’s existing patterns. Eva Illouz throttles individualistic emotions and puts love at the heart of a capitalist system that’s appropriated our emotions and sexuality.
And for three whole days in the Horta Hall you can visit PAV.LOV., the Pavillon des Amours, a pioneering investigation into the place, role and function of love in contemporary society.
The second theme for the autumn is the creative translation of love: artistic couples. The Hans Arp & Sophie Taeuber-Arp retrospective has inspired several programmes and projects around the legendary couple, including a podcast.
Furthermore, there is plenty of scope for imagination and poetry: American grandmaster Richard Powers will present a novel on AI, Palestinian-Syrian poet Ghayath Almadhoun articulates the suffering of his people in poignant verses, while poet Claudia Rankine similarly tackles the history of racism in the US.
And last but not least, there will be encounters with the architects, musicians and artists who are exhibiting or performing at Bozar.
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Open Society Foundations is the privileged partner of this programme.
