EN • Artiste Sylvie FLEURY • 28 March - 16 May 2026 • Thaddaeus Ropac • Salzbourg Villa Kast • Press Release
Sylvie Fleury, Chevaleresse, 2025 Mannequin legs, car paint, Margiela rain coat 95 × 80 × 40 cm (37.4 × 31.5 × 15.75 in) Engaging with the mechanics of materialistic desire, aesthetics and the construction of value, Sylvie Fleury’s sleek, alluring works provide a lens through which contemporary politics of gender, beauty and consumerism can be re-evaluated. The exhibition presents new sculptures, including works from one of the artist’s most recent series, showing crossed legs made of lacquered fibreglass suspended on the wall, like the bottom half of a mannequin. Since her Shopping Bag sculptures from the 1990s, appropriating and recontextualising luxury consumer items has been a recurring theme in Fleury’s work. As a testament to the lineage of the readymade, the legs are draped with coats from a luxury fashion house. The neons on view, meanwhile, encompass two decades of Fleury’s investigation of the medium. Like many of her sculptures, they form an art-historical gesture, drawing o...