Florence Doléac

Etendoile d’araignée

2007

Light-emitting thread, painted stainless structure

Limited edition of 3 exemplaires : Galerie Jousse Entreprise

Exibition “ Interior for two-legged animals”

This airer in bright linen arranged in a lounge raises the presence of a huge cobweb on which the vast clothes dry as dead skins.

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.