Petal, Fortress, Blood and Evening Star, a duo exhibition by Olga Abeleva and Andrea Lukic, draws inspiration from Gabriel García Márquez’s novel One Hundred Years of Solitude. In the novel, there is a short episode where the fictional town of Macondo faces a plague of insomnia that spreads through a lollipop business, leading to catastrophic consequences. As the disease engulfs the town, people lose their memories, identities, language, and awareness of their existence, sinking into a shared dream world. Drawing inspiration from this theme, the artists explore the horror of linguistic breakdown and historical amnesia. Abeleva and Lukic’s works are brimming with dream symbolism, harrowing reality, lethal life lessons learned from fairytales, ominous apparitions, cross sections, 80s malls, piles of jewels, and flashes of lightning.
The exhibition is anchored by two compelling forces: the spectral presence of architecture in horror, and the murky depths of fairy tales. Abeleva and Lukic present works that resonate as stills from an unseen horror film, inviting the audience to navigate a labyrinth of spatial and psychological enigmas. Viewers are invited into a world where the boundaries between material and psychological realms continuously blur.Petal, Fortress, Blood and Evening Star is currently on view at Montreal’s Tap Art Space.
Olga Abeleva
Olga Abeleva, “Lollipops of Insomnia”, 36×48, oil on canvas
Andrea Lukic
Olga Abeleva, “Mysteries of Love”, 48×60, oil on canvas
Olga Abeleva, “Proof of Value”, 24×42, oil on canvas
Petal, Fortress, Blood and Evening Star
Andrea Lukic
Petal, Fortress, Blood and Evening Star, a duo exhibition by Olga Abeleva and Andrea Lukic, draws inspiration from Gabriel García Márquez’s novel One Hundred Years of Solitude. In the novel, there is a short episode where the fictional town of Macondo faces a plague of insomnia that spreads through a lollipop business, leading to catastrophic consequences. As the disease engulfs the town, people lose their memories, identities, language, and awareness of their existence, sinking into a shared dream world. Drawing inspiration from this theme, the artists explore the horror of linguistic breakdown and historical amnesia. Abeleva and Lukic’s works are brimming with dream symbolism, harrowing reality, lethal life lessons learned from fairytales, ominous apparitions, cross sections, 80s malls, piles of jewels, and flashes of lightning.
The exhibition is anchored by two compelling forces: the spectral presence of architecture in horror, and the murky depths of fairy tales. Abeleva and Lukic present works that resonate as stills from an unseen horror film, inviting the audience to navigate a labyrinth of spatial and psychological enigmas. Viewers are invited into a world where the boundaries between material and psychological realms continuously blur. Petal, Fortress, Blood and Evening Star is currently on view at Montreal’s Tap Art Space.
Olga Abeleva
Olga Abeleva, “Lollipops of Insomnia”, 36×48, oil on canvas
Andrea Lukic
Olga Abeleva, “Mysteries of Love”, 48×60, oil on canvas
Olga Abeleva, “Proof of Value”, 24×42, oil on canvas
Andrea Lukic