Jozef Wouters (born 1986) is a scenographer. Making no difference between his work as a stage designer, architect or visual artist, he designs spaces that are shaped by negotiation. Always starting from a specific context, his scenographies often attempt to focus the gaze of an audience. Jozef Wouters wants to build strategic spaces that express a clear desire. This was already the case with
TOREN / een voorstelling voor pendelaars (2009), and
ATELIER (a scenography in 2011 and 2012, for
Meg Stuart / Damaged Goods). Over the years, Wouters has often been building structures and situations with a middle, a purposefully constructed center for attention, action and communication. In 2013, for Kunstenfestivaldesarts in Brussels, Wouters designed such a space and attached it with a bridge to the Museum of Natural Sciences to temporarily serve as an extra wing. In the exhibition
All problems can never be solved (2012, KVS), a project about the problem-solving ability of architecture in a social housing district in Brussels, Wouters looked at models as carriers of desire and as proposals for discussion. One could say his works are always scale models, even when build on scale 1:1.
