Ugo Woatzi

France / BelgiumArtists · Galleries & Collectives

Biography

Ugo Woatzi (he/they) is an artist exploring the intersections of queer narratives and utopian imaginaries. Their work combines diverse mediums to create dreamlike environments. Drawing on memories and fiction, Woatzi’s practice offers poetic reflections and imagines new possibilities for belonging and transformation—both for our bodies and the worlds we inhabit. In 2024, Woatzi was a resident at the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht and is currently in residency at WIELS in Brussels.

Archive records · BUNA vol.3 / 2025

Leila, 2019 Digital print on fabric 200 x 300 cm Just Chill, 2019 Digital print on fabric 200 x 300 cm Saraya Abdoul, 2019 Digital print on fabric 200 x 300 cm Camouflage, 2018 Digital print on fabric 200 x 300 cm Secret Forest, 2018 Digital print on fabric 200 x 300 cm Tiger, 2020 Digital print on fabric 200 x 300 cm

Artists

CHAMELEON, ongoing (2018-now) series of photographs Ugo Woatzi’s photographs reference spaces both real and imagined, caught between worlds of freedom and restriction. He reveals and yet conceals, like a chameleon hiding, blending and adapting – as a means of preservation and queer resilience.

PUNTA Gallery and Spiaggia Libera group presentation, 2025 No separate work label supplied; see entry No. 47 for the CHAMELEON series

Galleries & Collectives

Gallery / Collective: PUNTA Gallery and Spiaggia Libera (FR)
Curator / Team: Curators: Sacha Guedj Cohen (FR), Camille Velluet (FR), Boyana Dzhikova

The works in this section focus on fluidity, transition, and the continuous transformation of identity. Drawing on the hybrid body of the siren, the artists explore the human capacity to move between forms, roles, and states of being. Metamorphosis is presented not as an exception, but as an essential condition of contemporary life. These works invite viewers to embrace multiplicity, diversity, and identities that remain open, adaptable, and continually in the process of becoming.