Andreanne Fournier - Kone Foundation

I am sculptor from Montreal, Canada. I am interested in exploring through sculpture the suggestion of a nordic aesthetic. The northern landscape, wild life, rhythm and climate affect the populations of the North and become central in their sensitivity, in their cultural identity and social distinction. It shapes their experience of color, time, nature and their way to express its representation. I am interested in the extent which these affections can occur within art and the creative process.

Which features could make an image, a sculpture or an aesthetic likely of being perceived as “nordic”? What would a “nordic art”, aware and inclusive of the existence of “multiple and diversified Norths”, look like? What is a nordic aesthetic?

Within my art and my creative process, I consider that inhabiting and choosing to stay in the territories of the North is an act of resilience; it consist in the choice of confronting a hostile and rough climate, yet beautiful and which becomes, ultimately, what defines us. Within the cold and the winter affections, we can recognize who we are, we channel our strenght which manifest in the determination, the instinct for survival and the will that it takes.

For this specific project in the Saari Residence, I will reflect on the notions of northern wild life, the materiality of dead animal corpses and the notion of hibernation.