Camille Bernard

Camille Bernard’s work offers an ambivalent vision of humanity, in which creatures evolve in a durable but fragile balance, as nature takes its course. These worlds are marked by a vocabulary of forms that are significant in the artist’s work: rocks, grasses, streams, stems, flowers and humans, who populate her environments, are found throughout her canvases. They are gentle or voracious, asleep or excited, naked or hairy, and live alone or in groups. Solid and heavy in appearance, they develop their mythological allure, like metamorphs. Through these figurations, the artist aims to share and disseminate images of bodies and life in nature that are more inclusive and less gendered. Deluge, Source, Sommeil, Sol, Chœurs, Nid, Seuil - the environments depicted are reminiscent of transitory spaces. Beyond a fixed, sedentary vision, the artist presents an image of a nomadic life on the move, where habitat is reinvented and community is cherished. The aim here is neither to build on nature, nor to use it as a backdrop, but to interact with it, like a protagonist. This interaction gradually leads human and plant bodies to merge and fuse. ...