Description: "Fashion girl" Sylvie Fleury's work looks like a confirmation of the values of a consumer society, but it is much more of a bang for your buck than that. Subtly commenting on appearance for appearance's sake, she appropriates logos from fashion houses, perfume stores, and glossy magazines and uses them to identify the human passions and desires connected to them. In her attempt to come to terms with the fetishistic attachment to material goods that is the defining feature of the world of fashion, Fleury has recently turned to magic light phenomena, colorful rooms, flossy surfaces, magic auras, pendulums, and crystals. 49000, with a layout by the Swiss artist herself, presents work from the last two years along with classics from the 90s.

Sylvie Fleury: 49000

Arts & Photography

Schalhorn, Andreas

Melcher, Ralph

Fleury, Sylvie

Individual Artists

Hatje Cantz Publishers

<p>If ever an art ¬ museum is transformed into a fashion show, then Sylvie Fleury definitely is the guest. For around twenty-five years, the artist has wittily ¬ explored gender cliché s and the stereotypes of consumer society. Kunst Museum Winterthur is presenting » Shoplifters from Venus« , the first ¬ comprehensive solo exhibition of the Geneva artist in Switzerland in fifteen years, in which she seeks a dialogue with modernism while revealing its masculine character with great relish. This forthcoming book is more than just an exhibition catalogue: it follows the development of the artist' s work on the basis of all her solo exhibi¬ tions since the 1990s. Essays by Simon Baier, Konrad Bitterli, and Elisabeth Bronfen illuminate ¬ selected aspects of her work, which over the years has lost little of its contentious poignancy and emancipatory power.</p>

Sylvie Fleury: Exhibition History 1991–2023: Cat. Kunst Museum Winterthur

Baier, Simon

Bronfen PhD, Elisabeth

Snoeck Publishing Company

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