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
on Conceptual artist Joseph Kosuth’s principle that ‘art is making meaning’ and relating
it to slogans and jingles, provocatively harnessing it to engage with and call into
question the mechanics of the beauty industry. The name of a perfume, Lancôme’s Ô,
is instantly recognisable through its distinctive font. Here, Fleury returns
– with cynicism but always a touch of fondness – to the trappings of consumer society
and our related fixations and aspirations.

Sylvie Fleury, Frankie Goes to Hollywood (N.6), 2023
Acrylic on canvas on wood • 200 × 220 × 8 cm (78.74 × 86.61 × 3.15 in)

A series of large-scale paintings will be on view alongside Fleury’s sculptures.
The V-shaped canvases covered in even, parallel stripes reference Frank Stella’s geometric
‘pinstripe’-paintings. Fleury renders the iconic minimal shapes in shimmering pastel colours, highlighting how high art and luxury culture operate through similar systems
of desire, while also questioning the structures of power attached to these commodities.


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