For her second solo exhibition at sissi club, Camille Bernard invites us to wander through the meandering landscape, where body and landscape cohabit in the same organic momentum. These solitary or inhabited landscapes, observed or crossed, materialise a psychic state, a cyclothymic mood.

At the centre of the exhibition, three large portraits from the Palms series capture moments of floating and wandering. Their faces and bodies, distorted by the angles at which they are viewed, overflowing the frame, seem suspended in an in-between state where apathy precedes movement. Nails, hair and eyelashes glisten in the light, drawing the eye to their immoderation.
In this state of introspection, the characters freeze, while the landscapes, echoing their states of mind, unfold and become clearer: hills and trees curl as fingers twist. Between restraint and impulse, clues – the rosy skin of the cheeks, the distant gaze, the shadows cast – reveal an inner turmoil. All around, nature oscillates between dream and reality.

With Bloom, the last canvas in the series, a transformation takes place: in a state of ecstasy, fragments of landscape emerge between the strands of hair, opening up the composition to new possibilities, calmer and more serene. This work marks the transition to a new series, Meanders, in which Camille Bernard first shows figures in action, gliding from one territory to another with a new-found determination.
The forest becomes the refuge of an inner world, the cliffs a threshold between the tangible and the imaginary. In Shades, a body camouflaged in a thick cloak fades into the shadows of the foliage. Gradually, the human figure fades into the background, until it disappears altogether in favour of the landscape: views of the artist’s everyday environment. The painting is gradually stripped of its narrative, fabulous envelope, to rediscover a form of sobriety, candour and humility.

Filtering through the leaves, the saving light marks out uncertain seasons, between spring and autumn, lightning and storms. This interplay of light and shadow reflects a patient attention to the landscape, a contemplation that questions the very act of painting. How can we transform our gaze, rediscover a fully dedicated state of concentration?
Here, the landscape is no longer confined to its decorative function, but now carries its own emotional charge and tensions. Occupying the centre of attention, it recurs at different scales: in the titanic continuity of faces or in miniature on small wooden cards, multiplying textures, tones and looks. Painting becomes a space for physical, luminous, embodied exploration.

Camille Bernard presents an intimate vision of nature, in which bodies maintain a fragile balance with living things. Rocks, streams, grasses and figures intertwine, not as simple compositional elements, but as protagonists investigating harmony. The landscape becomes a space for breathing, a time for soothing, a surrender to emotion as a capacity for action.