GABRIELLE LAJOIE-BERGERON

MASCHA - LE GROS PARTY

By surrounding us with goddesses, muses, queens, pastel colours, and sequins, Gabrielle Lajoie-Bergeron invites us to reflect on narratives. The individual narratives that we hold onto in our private life, and the collective narratives that we share in our common culture. Here, she attempts to bring them back to the same level, to undo the hierarchy that has erased large parts of them. What vision of women does art history suggest through these familiar figures? What is left out? By appropriating these archetypes and transforming their context, Lajoie-Bergeron demonstrates how an image can be a source of domination, but also emancipation.
 

BIOGRAPHIE

Gabrielle Lajoie-Bergeron is interested in how images and history are constructed and propagated. Individual and collective stories, and the notion of territory and belonging are considered through paintings, drawings, small sculptures, embroideries, and installations. Her work has been presented at the Palazzo della Arti Napoli (Italy), the Institute of Contemporary Art (Baltimore), and in several venues across Québec and Canada, in Europe, Argentina, Africa, and in the US. She has received several prizes and grants in Canada and internationally.