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.

2010
Printing on aluminium
Variable dimension
Serie of 8 uniques

Aurora Borealis is an illusion of openness. This trompe-l’oeil in the form of a French window engenders an unlikely space-time ratio. This by nature artificial proposition is part of a set of works which Florence Doléac calls ‘placebos’. The vision of cosmic sweetness-and-light gives rise to a release of endorphin which provides the eye contemplating it with a sense of well-being.