Florence Doléac

Cacaothèque

2008

Bookcase

Order of Zoogalerie

White melaminé, brown silico

122,8 inches x 107,5 inches

Nantes

Cacothèque is a library earmarked for art book editions. Though dry, the chocolate-hued silicon joints lend an eternally fresh touch to the whole thing, which we dare to rub up against. It is a spontaneous response, an in situ installation set up in four days.

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.