Florence Doléac

Trophy

2008 & 2009

Lab base engraved, arched copper gold dipped stalk. 13,7 x 5 inches

Edition of 11 “ Elan de mode”

Order from the french federation of the ready to wear clothing

The turned hanger image is deformed in the shape of trophy.

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.