For its third participation in Paris Internationale, sissi club presents a dialogue between Amalia Laurent (b. 1992, France), Camille Bernard (b. 1994, France), and Caroline Ricca Lee (b. 1990, Brazil).
A member of the Genthasari group, a gamelan ensemble, and trained in the batik technique by MasTatang, Amalia Laurent practices Indonesian and European traditions to create a body of work that includes installations, performances, and sculptures.
Her work centres on batik, an ancestral Indonesian wax-printing technique connected to ornamentation, cartography, and transmission, as well as on the creation of cap [tʃap], a copper printing tool developed by the artist from traditional Indonesian motifs, enabling their repetition and layering across textile surfaces. Through textile, imprint, rhythm, and spatial composition, the works explore repetition as a mode of learning and circulation — in which gestures, patterns, and sounds are reproduced, transmitted, and carried through time. Here, repetition is not understood as duplication, but as a living structure shaped by memory, inheritance, and collective movement.
Amalia Laurent was a resident at the Villa Medici in 2024–2025, and is a guest artist at the Philharmonie de Paris in 2026–2027.
Born in 1992 in Paris, Amalia (who lives and works between Paris and Nîmes) is a Franco-Indonesian artist. She graduated from the Royal College of Art (London, UK) in 2018 and is currently a PhD student in medieval history at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (Paris, FR). Her recent exhibitions have taken place at Espace Croisée, Roubaix (2026); Villa Medici, Rome (2025); Château Lacoste, Le Puy-Sainte-Réparade (2025); the Museum of the History of Immigration, Paris (2024); ARCO, Madrid (2024); Anne Barrault, Paris (2024); Sainte-Chapelle, Paris (2023).
Her works are held in the collections of the Museum of the History of Immigration (Paris, FR).
Camille Bernard’s work offers an ambivalent vision of humanity, in which creatures exist in a sustainable yet fragile balance, subject to the vagaries of nature. These worlds are characterised by a vocabulary of forms which, through repetition, have come to define the artist’s oeuvre. Rocks, grasses, streams, stems, flowers and humans, who inhabit these natural elements, recur throughout the canvases. They are gentle or voracious, asleep or excited, naked or hairy, and exist alone or in groups. Seemingly solid and heavy, they re-enact their mythological allure as metaphors. Through these representations, the artist reveals new forms of earthly sustenance, more inclusive and less gendered.
Born in 1994 in Paris, Camille (who lives and works in Uzerche) is a French-Scottish artist. She graduated from the Glasgow School of Art in 2017. She was awarded the Fleming-Wyfold Bursary in 2017.
Her recent solo and group exhibitions include: FRAC Ile-de-France, Paris (2026, 2025); Les Capucins, Embrun (2025); sissi club (2025, 2021); Norito, London (2025); DS Galerie, Paris (2024); CACN, Nîmes (2024); La Tolerie, Clermont-Ferrand (2023); Art-or-rama, Marseille (2023); Sweet Tooth, Zurich (2023); FAWA, Paris (2023); CAC, Brétigny (2022); Paris Internationale, Paris (2020).
Her works are held in the collections of FRAC Ile-de-France (FR) and FRAC Occitanie (FR).
“In Déclins Diurnes, we find ourselves in a misaligned contemporary land that slips towards a time of parables, or a middle-age, or a time of promises.
We are tempted to presume the subject of these paintings lie in their supposed stories.
I imagine the passing of messages, a rumour, an unauthorised gathering; someone is coming, perhaps too late… The defeated, the exhausted, listening.
But there is also a project of articulating a contemporary mood. Something that underlines all experiences; a quiet exhaustion that is tinged with something softer.
Bodies fill the frame, we glimpse the landscape over shoulders and between limbs.
Or there is no one, just a setting who’s empty presence – quiet or sinister – invites us to locate these people in the real world.
Bernard’s work resonates with small and strange background details that would be at home in the science fiction writing of Marge Piercy, or Octavia Butler.
Her worlds unfold in softly un-gendered, magically symbiotic and co-evolving ruins; quiet, lost or forgetfully populated by a cohort of fellow travellers.”
Sam Basu, Treignac, 2026
Descended from a Japanese family who immigrated to Brazil and a Chinese family from Macau, the artist interrogates the narratives carried by diasporic bodies. Through a transdisciplinary practice combining sculpture, ceramics, textile, resin, video and writing, they explore unofficial memories — those of personal stories, family photographs, ancestral objects and embodied cartographies. Invoking speculative fiction as a critical tool, the artist creates rifts in dominant narratives, questioning the ways in which marginalised identities inhabit and transmit their history. Marked by the aesthetics of chaos, fragmentation and improvisation characteristic of São Paulo, this practice reflects the multiplicity of ways of existing and becoming inherent to multicultural and diasporic identities.
Caroline Ricca Lee is the winner of the Northern Trust Purchase Prize 2026 at Expo Chicago, they are participating in the 39th Panorama of Brazilian Art at MAM (São Paulo) and are currently in residence at the Jan van Eyck Academie.
Born in São Paulo, Caroline Ricca Lee (lives and works in São Paulo) is a Brazilian artist of Japanese and Chinese descent. In 2020–2021, they followed the Research Programme in Social Anthropology at the University of São Paulo. They are currently a resident at the Jan Van Eyck Academy in Maastricht. They were also a resident at La Becque (CH) and IASPIS (Sweden) in 2025, and at Pivô Arte e Pesquisa (São Paulo) and Fondazione Elle (Sicily) in 2024. They are the recipient of the ISOLA SICILIA prize in 2023, and were nominated for the Institut PIPA in 2025 and the Northern Trust Purchase Prize in 2026.
Recent solo and group exhibitions include: SALTS, Basel (2025); Galeria Quadra, São Paulo (2025); Sesc Paulista, São Paulo (2025); Tube Culture Hall, Milan (2024); Galerie Verve, São Paulo (2024); Museu de Arte Contemporânea, Brazil (2022); Cultural Center of São Paulo (2021); Centro Cultural São Paulo (2020). They are preparing their first solo exhibition in Europe at sissi club, Marseille, in August 2026.
Their works are held in the collections of Soho House Tokyo (JP), Renato Alpegiani, Turin (IT), Fondazione Oelle Collection, Sicily (IT) and Denver Art Museum (US). They are represented by Verve Galeria, São Paulo (BR)