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.


Lunatique
2010
Cardboard, lether, bented and painted metal
Variable dimensions
Serial of 12 unique pieces
“Lunatique” is a table-desk tribute to Mathieu Matégot.

Matégot is an important present designer in mind of the gallery Jousse. This pope of the perforated metal and the hole, excelled at the housing, the coffee table, the lounge table, in the 50s. I get myself in to his skin. First of all, I noticed a movement of center of interest, to the works universe, the one which hold most at the moment. The whim turning around the hole then shaped around a spiritual quest, a need of inspiration of the concentrated being who contemplates him.