We present an experimental study of a 2D foam, composed of a single monolayer of bubbles, forced to flow in a confining Hele-Shaw cell, which models an open fracture. A defect localized in the center of the cell, increasing or decreasing locally its gap, strongly disturbs the foam flow. The transparency of the cell allows to directly observe and monitor the bubbles’ motion and deformation. We therefore performed a systematic study of the average bubble velocity and deformation fields, as well as the spatial distribution of the bubble rearrangements, as a function of the control parameters of the experiments: the imposed driving velocity, the cell and defect geometry (gap and height), as well as the bubble size and liquid foam fraction (cont...