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.


Le Saloon vert
2010

Materials: pvc balls 120 cms in diameters deflated, covers sewn lacquered imitation leather, screenprinting, synthetic carpet tuft, lampshade paint fabric

Variable dimensions

The green saloon conjures up the appearance of a slightly distorted memory in which a game of American pool, zoomed in on, takes on the proportions of a contemporary saloon. Visitors are invited to roll and loll about on the billiard balls which have turned into much larger balls that are at once inflated and deflated, like a mistaken recollection. The atmosphere of a pool or billiard hall is enhanced by the way the floor is presented, covered as it is with a carpet that is a de-saturated billiard green in colour.