Oliver Bernardi (b.1991) is a photo-based artist exploring the tension between impermanence and preservation, presence and absence. Through darkroom-based processes including contact printing, photograms, and analog compositing, his work functions as a quiet act of reverence — tracing the invisible weight of time, memory, and transformation. Drawing on symbolic elements from the natural world, Bernardi creates images that act less as documentation and more as devotional objects: vessels for the unrepeatable moment, the edge of a veil, and subtle proof of presence — of what was briefly here, and still lingers.
capturing presence through light and contact.
Process
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Straight Photography
Lens based image making
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Transparencies
Negatives
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Cyanotypes
UV prints
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Alternative Process
Black and white darkroom
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Alternative Process II
Colour Darkroom
ÆTHER
Series
2025
A metaphotographic series of alternative-process darkroom prints.
REFLECT
2024
A single frame, a dreamlike invitation to reflect.
SPAZUK/BERNARDI
2022 - 2023
A collaboration between fumage artist, Steven Spazuk and Oliver Bernardi.
CAPS
2020 - 2021
‘CAPS’ (Channeling Acute Pressure Series) is a meditation on process - a fossil of a manifested creative intention. A beautifully chaotic and unintentional landscape - a reliquary for the often discarded.
About
Services
Photography
Printmaking
STUDIO
Montreal
Canada
Education
Dawson College, Professional Photography
Concordia University, Photography
Exhibitions
CAPS, 2021
Art Basel Miami, 2023
SCOPE Miami, 2022
Contact
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