Florence Doléac

Garbage Sofa

2009

Fabrics and polystyrène

35,4 x 17,7 inches

Limited Edition of 20 for each color ( blue, kaki, grey, black ) + 2 artiste proofs

Écrivain et journaliste dans le domaine du design et de l’architecture, Esther Henwood met en lumière l’évidente relation qui existe entre littérature et design. Avec des questions simples qui laissent les réponses se développer librement, elle interroge quarante designers contemporains aux choix esthétiques et formels très différents. A l’occasion de la sortie de son ouvrage ‘Design & Littérature, une liaison inspirée’, aux éditions Norma, La Galerie Jousse Entreprise a le plaisir de vous convier à la présentation de la pièce de Florence Doléac qui a répondu à l’invitation d’Esther, en choisissant de rendre hommage à Michel Houellebecq.

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.