Florence Doléac

XLS

2009

Materials: enamelled ceramic copper, leather strips

Limited edition of 20 + 2 prototypes

Attese - Biennale di Ceramica nell’Arte Contemporanea

XLS est un vase mural suspendu, composé de 3 tubes cintrés, disposés en gigogne, pouvant recevoir petits moyens et grands bouquets.

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.