Haude Bernabé: WHISPERS

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In conjunction with French May 2025, Sin Sin Fine Art is delighted to present artworks by French artist Haude Bernabé.

For artist and agronomist engineer Haude Bernabé, understanding life at the base is vital in her approach to life. In her studio near Paris, through various media, sculptures, drawings and installations, she navigates between conception and intuition, exploring territories of the intimates, relation to the Other, spiritual links and the movements of our societies.

Rooted in the vegetal and floral resurgence in art, Haude Bernabé’s work addresses both environmental concerns and the desire to move away from an anthropocentric worldview. The only human figures sketched in her ink drawings seem to hover in a liminal space between appearance and disappearance, their forms light and ephemeral. Like many artists attuned to the Anthropocene’s urgency, Bernabé acknowledges that we can no longer depict nature merely as a backdrop for human figures without endorsing centuries of a “Capitalocene” that exhausts life for utilitarian and domestic purposes.

Natural components such as plant pigments and leaf prints are prominent in her recent works. Through her pictorial gesture, Bernabé invites us to contemplate the fleeting, precious character of natural phenomena, from the crevices of a plant to the subtle folds of a leaf.

Her artworks have been exhibited in Europe and Hong Kong, and widely collected including by the Cérès Franco Museum in France.

ABOUT THE ARTIST / ORGANISER

Born in France and with a scientific background (agronomist engineer), Haude Bernabé has devoted herself to art since the early 1990s. Her first passion was art, the second one biology. In these two approaches to life, the same engine, understanding the living was at the base. In her studio near Paris, through various media, sculpture, drawing and installation, her polymorphic work halfway between conception and intuition explores the territories of the intimate, the relation to the Other, the spiritual links and the movements of our societies. Since 2019 and through many stays in west Africa, in Benin and Togo between 2019 and 2023 she began to explore the links between human beings and nature, particularly in her drawings, using natural components as plant pigments and leaf prints. Since 2021 she focused her work on drawings and the use of natural elements in them, through the practice of prints and collagraphy, symbolizing the interdependence of humanity and the nature.