Claude Dugit-Gros takes a playful and humorous approach to forms. The simplicity of her works’ formal economy reflects a desire to produce open and inclusive work that borrows from popular culture. Her collaborations and her commitment to developing a repertoire of simple forms that can be appropriated by each and everyone are rooted in values of collegiality and equality. The artisan quality of her work, coupled with her mastery of craft techniques such as moulding, tapestry, carpentry and mural painting, are more characteristic of the applied arts or design. By giving her furniture unconventional forms and patterns, she reconfigures the way they are used and perceived. In her work, the gratuitousness of art and the freedom of form are in constant dialogue with an attention to habitability and function, and to the way in which art enables us to engage with the world. As an artist who is keen to establish a both poetic and practical connection with her environment, she is very much attuned to the places in which her forms take shape.