Amélie Bernard is a multidisciplinary artist based in Paris, currently in residence at Poush Manifesto. A graduate of the Condé school in 2015, she lived for two years in Beirut, Lebanon, where she was in residence for several months at Haeven for artists and participated in various group exhibitions organized by the French Institute.
Caught between war and the will to rebuild, Beirut perhaps raises more questions than other cities about our relationship to buildings, to the city, and to what defines us through it. This experience has profoundly marked the artist's work.

“An archaeologist of the present,” Amélie strives to scratch beneath the surface of things, dissolving their superfluous layers to lead us to question the value of what remains. In Effets Personnels, everyday objects are displayed as vestiges of a vanished society, while Fragments of the Past highlights openwork ceramic tiles found in an abandoned building in Beirut, the sole survivors of a planned demolition.

In her project entitled 22nd Century, photographic negatives of Parisian neighborhoods were damaged with a corrosive agent. Images of the city and its inhabitants fade like archives of a bygone era, while nature seems to reclaim its space. The artist takes this further with her latest series, Broken Skins, whose epidermal walls reveal the intimacy hidden within the city's inanimate facades. By drawing a parallel between the layers of skin and architectural strata, Amélie Bernard questions the connections we forge with our environment. The walls crack and crumble upon contact with the outside world, leaving us to reflect on our own fragility.