Having creative fun with the classic dialectic of statue and base, Bertrand Lavier uses his famous "superimposed objects" project to put together a small encyclopaedia of items and obsessions specific to our different eras. With stacked pairings of unrelated, unmodified consumer artefacts such as refrigerators or sofas, he proposes startling visual equations and unnatural graftings: tension between curve and right angle obtained with a fragment of crashed Ferrari bodywork on a brand new Proline fridge; or, as here, with a Bocca—a red mouth-shaped sofa designed by Salvador Dalí—on a reclining white Haier freezer. At a far remove from the Marcel Duchamp who chose the objects of his readymades according to a "reaction of visual indifference", Lavier explains that his selections are determined by a concordance of shape, size, proportion and colour – an overall aesthetic coherence targeting maximum visual efficiency. This superimposition of two spheres—the everyday world and that of the work of art—without one taking precedence over the other, endows his choices with an unsettling presence and a powerfully exhilarating internal dynamic.