Graduating in 2024 with honors, photographer and video artist Zoé Bernardi is the winner of the 6th Sisley x Beaux-Arts de Paris prize for Young Creation.
This prize, co-created by Sisley and Beaux-Arts de Paris, aims to promote young artists. To support Zoé Bernardi in her future projects and the launch of her career, Sisley is offering her a scholarship and devoting an exhibition to her entitled “Les mots de la tribu” from June 6 to July 11 at its Paris headquarters as part of its Trois Cinq Friedland cultural program.
"It all begins in 2020, in the imposed confinement of the pandemic. For Zoé Bernardi, living confined to her own family raises a question: what does it mean to be a family? Beyond blood, beyond transmission, it's the circle that interests her - what defines “her bubble” and the tribe. For Zoé Bernardi, everything begins with a constellation of loved bodies, shared with tenderness. The bodies of a “Frankenstein” family: reconstituted, troubled, shattered. She photographs them as one watches, films them as one listens. In this radical proximity, the artist deploys an aesthetic of gentleness, care and indiscipline."
Jeanne Mathas
Art historian, critic and curator
Sisley is a committed patron of the Beaux-Arts de Paris, supporting the Via Futura program dedicated to the professionalization of students and recent graduates.
Jury members
Christine d'Ornano, Managing Director of Sisley and President of the jury
Leïla Slimani, writer
Mathieu Lehanneur, designer
Katherine Elizabeth Fleming, President of the J. Paul Getty Trust
Mariane Ibrahim, gallery owner
Katell Pouliquen, Editorial Director Marie-Claire
Aline Asmar d'Amman, architect and interior designer, founder of Culture in Architecture
Christophe Leribault, President of the Château de Versailles
Charles Carmignac, musician and director of the Fondation Carmignac
Kathy Alliou, director of the Fine Arts Department, Paris
Julien Sirjacq, artist and professor at the Beaux-Arts de Paris
Nina Jayasuriya, artist and winner of the Prix Sisley Beaux-Arts de Paris pour la Jeune Création 2024
Practical infos
Exhibition from June 6 to July 11
Monday to Thursday, 10:00 am to 5:30 pm, and Friday, 10:00 am to 12:30 pm
Visits by e-mail reservation: 3-5friedland@sisley.fr
Photo credit : © Patrick Cockpit
