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Design for Staring Into the Night, a book that brings together Amélie Bouvier’s research and artistic work inspired by astronomical stories and the history of observing the sky, from the late 19th century to the present day.

Inspired by the importance of stars and family memory, the book was made with two different types of paper. On one, we see delicate photographic images and on the other we see Bouvier’s work, which spans areas such as drawing, installation, and video. The book adopts the original measurements of the photographic glass plates and presents a superimposition of elements that are gradually thickened – if the Harvard astronomical archive begins with a 10% grid, by the end it is clearly visible in a 100% grid, a metaphor for the discovery of these photographic plates and the women who made them.

Due to their gender, women were not able to work at night, and these glass plates were what enabled them to study the sky. This was fundamental to the construction and concept of this book, which seeks to see the night during the day.