Sylvie Fleury

Exhibition Sylvie Fleury
Provocative, glossy, unsettling: Throughout the summer months, the exhibition Cascade is complemented by a pop-up intervention by Swiss artist Sylvie Fleury. Featuring eleven works, this presentation opens up new and surprising perspectives for visitors.

More than just glamour
Whether it’s a cast of Jane Fonda’s 1970s stepper, stilettos cast in bronze, or an oversized pink popcorn sculpture – Sylvie Fleury’s works inevitably draw attention.

But there’s much more behind the shimmer: The artist engages deeply with consumer culture and the question of how objects become items of desire – even fetish objects. With humor and exaggeration, she critically reflects on our relationship with consumer goods. At the same time, her works reveal a profound human tendency: to define ourselves through things – and to project onto them an exaggerated, almost fetishistic meaning.

Traces of a future
In dialogue with the exhibition Cascade, a new field of tension emerges: Fleury’s artworks enter into a subtle conversation with the surrounding pieces – touching on themes of time, and the rise and fall of aesthetic phenomena.