Forest Edge

In 2025, I came to Chile and began a new chapter in my life. This new beginning led me to observe the natural environment closely, especially Chilean flora and fauna.

I am particularly interested in the European hare, a species introduced to Chile between the late 19th and early 20th centuries for sport hunting. Over time, this animal has deeply impacted ecosystems and landscapes, transforming both the land and the relationships between species.

In this tension, I see the presence of a foreign body in a foreign ecosystem – a metaphor for the “third space,” understood as that hybrid, uncomfortable but fertile territory that emerges when two worlds overlap. My artistic work explores this in-between ground: neither entirely natural nor fully human, but a shared space in constant transformation, where adaptation, conflict, and possibility coexist.

My creative process seeks to inhabit this uncertain space, observing how the foreign becomes part of a place, and how artistic gestures can also become a form of belonging.

Previous work

Collages

Textile art

Drawing

Biography


Rakel Bernie was born in Santa Fe, Argentina, in 1951. Her artistic training began in London, where she studied Painting and Drawing at Richmond College between 1995 and 1996. In 1998, she moved to the United States and enrolled at the New World School of the Arts in Miami, Florida. In 2004, she earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A.) degree with a concentration in Drawing and Painting from the University of Florida.

Throughout her career, she has complemented her education through various workshops and seminars in Argentina, Spain, and the United States. Notable among these are the Textile Experimentation Workshop taught by Araceli Pourcel; the Art and Nature Seminar led by Belén Romero Caballero in Valencia, Spain; and the Art Criticism course with Fabiana Barreda in Buenos Aires. She has also explored fine art photography through the workshop "Nude Photography in Nature" with David Bermiluz and Pablo Garber, held at the Borges Cultural Center in Buenos Aires.

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Artist Statement


During my creative process, I constantly return to forgotten memories and resurfacing emotions, combining them with images from the present

In this way, a new territory begins to form, a kind of “third space” where the personal crosses paths with the collective, the natural with the intervened, and who I am with who I am becoming.

Visual allegories, a touch of irony, and almost magical landscapes allow me to build a narrative that does not seek answers, but rather open questions about how we inhabit internal and external spaces in their constant state of change.

My work spans drawing, collage, textile art, and other mixed media, exploring each material as a language to navigate this in-between space.

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