Amélie Bernard is a multidisciplinary artist based in Paris, in residence at Poush Manifesto. A graduate of the École de Condé in 2015, she lived for two years in Lebanon, in Beirut where she was in residence for several months at Haeven for artists and participated in various group exhibitions organized by the Institut Français.
Between war and the desire for reconstruction, Beirut doubtless questions more than others our relationship to the built environment, to the city and to what defines us through it. This experience has profoundly marked the artist's work.

"Archaeologist of the present", Amélie strives to scratch the surface of things, to dissolve the superfluous layers to lead us to question the value of what remains. In Effets Personnels, everyday objects are exhibited as the vestiges of a vanished society while Fragments of the Past highlights openwork ceramic tiles found in an abandoned building in Beirut, the only survivors of a planned demolition.

In her project entitled XXIIème siècle, the photo negatives of the districts of Paris were damaged with a corrosive agent. The images of the city and its inhabitants fade like the archives of a bygone era while nature seems to take back its place. The artist goes further with her latest series entitled Broken Skins whose epidermal walls reveal the intimacy hidden in the inanimate facades of the city. By making a possible connection between the layers of the skin and the architectural strata, Amélie Bernard questions the links that are made with our environment. The walls crack and crumble on contact with the outside world, leaving us to meditate on our own fragility.