Presented as part of the solo exhibition LACUNA-LACUNE at the Fofa Gallery, Montreal, Canada

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exhibition catalogue in printed and e-version: https://e-artexte.ca/id/eprint/33666/2/CatalogueLacuna_ebookepub.epub

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article: https://www.lapresse.ca/arts/arts-visuels/2021-10-30/dans-l-atelier-de-andreanne-abbondanza-bergeron/inspiree-par-la-pandemie.php

 

Exhibited at FOFA Gallery during its post-pandemic reopening, Lacuna was a large-scale, site-dependent installation composed of 438 ribbons of steel strapping, spanning over 5.5 kilometers of material. Inhabiting the gallery’s Main Space, the work emerged from a physical and contemplative dialogue with architecture, drawing on Abbondanza-Bergeron’s embodied process of responding to the scale, presence, and affect of a space. Inspired by photographic encounters with post-consumer waste embedded in nature, the piece evoked instability through its metallic waves—mirroring environmental disruption, data fluctuations, and systemic fragility.

Writer Sky Goodden described the work as: “Lacuna – Lacune is a metal wave seemingly sourced in the towering walls and pouring out, metal ribbons converging impressively to rush the gallery floor. We stand at its violent edge – or step beneath its waving current – and experience our own helplessness on an outsize scale, but in effect, one commensurate to our moment. My mind streams with comparable images, often ascertained in newspaper-column inches, from this past two years: the stock market crashes, the Covid-death spikes and drops, the oil slicks rushing the coasts. We envision supply-chain shortages, overwhelmed hospitals, unvaccinated children, respiratory failure, and threatening geopolitical shifts … all through the comprehending, mute waving of thumbnail graphs. In a time of continuous pressure and nonstop acclimating – the kind of ‘pivoting’ that

risks a break in its forever bend – what a relief to feel the scale of this moment reflected back, to be stormed by our stormy senses.”
“Abbondanza-Bergeron makes demonstrable the limits of our control. We return to our bodies to acknowledge their borders, their potential to be overwhelmed, confused, submerged, and we are grateful for the reminder. She gives image and memorial to a period in which we have been but waiting cursors blinking on a white page, too paralyzed to write.”
 

Goodden, Sky (Author); Burisch, Nicole (Prefacer); Abbondanza-Bergeron, Andréanne (Artist), “LACUNA-LACUNE” exhibition catalogue, Fofa Gallery, November 2021.  https://e-artexte.ca/id/eprint/33666/