Florence Doléac

Adada

2010

Installation, assise, balles pvc gonflables, textile enduit pvc, filet polypropylène, velcro

“Adada” is a round armchair that fits six, offering seating in an astride position. The people in it may sit opposite one another, back to back, or caterpillar-like, as at a fairground. Three primary-coloured systems are formed by inflatable balls in two sizes fitted in like beads and covered by an overlay of fabrics and nets. Visitors who take a seat here immediately feel a relentless effect of regression, because of the bouncing inflated balls and the global form which they become part of.

Florence Doléac sets her work in an interstitial space where design hobnobs with art, and where presentation and production methods waver between a system that is both commercial and institutional. The fact that she lays claim to this not very common stance endows her with a specific identity. The fact is that not only does Florence Doléac introduce a tension between production and exhibition, with answers that brim with wit and poetry, but she also develops a line of questioning about function and its contrasting counterpart: uselessness. Her proposals and ideas sidestep established codes in order to upset the way we usually perceive things; she intercepts our gestures by putting a finger on their limits. The incongruousness of the various situations thus created refers us to our own imagination, thus lightening a reality that is far too straitjacketed.