Touristic Route/Survival Route

Touristic Route and Survival Route, 2017.

Acrylic paint and felt pen on rescue blankets, 210 × 160 cm (82 × 63 in) each.

Private collection, Belgium (Touristic Route).

Silver side (Touristic Route): In 2000, Lucie revisits all the places and countries she went through between 1938 — when she fled Austria at 12 years old with her family because they were Jewish — and 1951, when she left France to NY on a steamer.

Golden side (Survival Route): In 2014, Suyapa flees Honduras, crosses Guatemala and Mexico on foot and on the top of merchandise trains. She arrives a month later in Houston, Texas, after an extremely dangerous journey. (Text adapted from Camilla Panhard's book, No women's land, with her kind permission)

Exhibitions

Eldorado, 2025. → view page

They used to sing, 2020. → view page

Drawing Now, 2019. → view page

Cartographic Anxiety, 2018.

Travelers and Strangers, 2017. → view page

1/7Lucile Bertrand - Touristic Route/Survival Route

Touristic Route/Survival Route

2/7Lucile Bertrand - Touristic Route/Survival Route

Touristic Route,
detail.

3/7Lucile Bertrand - Touristic Route/Survival Route

Touristic Route,
detail.

4/7Lucile Bertrand - Touristic Route/Survival Route

Touristic Route,
detail.

5/7Lucile Bertrand - Touristic Route/Survival Route

Survival Route,
detail.

6/7Lucile Bertrand - Touristic Route/Survival Route

Survival Route,
detail.

7/7Lucile Bertrand - Touristic Route/Survival Route

Survival Route,
detail.