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.

The grannies
Gourd, low energy lamp, wig
Edition of 8 (Aliette, Blanche, Henriette, Jeannette, Louise, Marguerite, Renée, Simone) “La petite souris”
“The Grannies” are kindly nightlights, ghosts of a certain generation of grandmothers.“In her Grannies project, FD bedecks portraits of the third kind hailing from Cévennes gourds with silken white dignity. Set at the bedsides of sensitive souls as half-tone reminders of the inevitable clearing. Those worried about everlasting youth, refrain!” FM