Photo-sculptures
Sculpture isn't always large, solid, permanent. Douet's 'micro-sculptures' use some of the principles of sculpture - form, depth, light and shade - and leaves out others - scale, mass, volume, impermanence, creating a miniature world that is surreal and ephemeral.
She trawls interior design magazines and auction catalogue for images of valuable antique furniture and ornaments, cutting out photos and gluing, folding and assembling them into hybrid forms. Two-dimensional gilded chairs, silk brocades, Ming vases advertised as costing hundreds of pounds are turned into new constructions that are both two and three dimensional.
There are elements of upcycling in the use of these particular images; antiques are used goods, handmade in simpler economic times. The images are culled from magazines on their way out. This entropic process is undermined by re-making these real things, conferring new value on them, siting them as fine art.
She trawls interior design magazines and auction catalogue for images of valuable antique furniture and ornaments, cutting out photos and gluing, folding and assembling them into hybrid forms. Two-dimensional gilded chairs, silk brocades, Ming vases advertised as costing hundreds of pounds are turned into new constructions that are both two and three dimensional.
There are elements of upcycling in the use of these particular images; antiques are used goods, handmade in simpler economic times. The images are culled from magazines on their way out. This entropic process is undermined by re-making these real things, conferring new value on them, siting them as fine art.