Le supermarché des images
Sylvie Fleury
February 11–June 7, 2020
Jeu de Paume, Paris

In light of recent developments regarding the coronavirus (COVID-19), exhibitions, events and talks are subject to change

We live in a world that is increasingly saturated with images. Their number is growing so exponentially – each day more than three billion images are shared on social networks – that the space of visibility seems to be literally inundated. As if it can no longer contain the images that constitute it. As if there were no more room, no more interstices between the images. Faced with such an overproduction of images, questions need to be asked, more than ever before, about their storage, management, transportation (even if it is electronic) and the paths they follow, their weight, the fluidity or viscosity of their exchanges, their fluctuating values – in short, questions about their economy. The works and artists chosen for the exhibition cast a keen and watchful eye over these issues. On the one hand, they reflect the upheavals that currently affect the economy in general, whether in terms of unprecedentedly large storage spaces, the scarcity of raw materials, labour and its mutations into intangible forms, or in terms of value and its new manifestations, such as cryptocurrencies.

L'Almanach 20
Sylvie Fleury
June 19–November 8, 2020
Le Consortium, Dijon

In light of recent developments regarding the coronavirus (COVID-19), exhibitions, events and talks are subject to change.

It Never Ends – curated by John M Armleder
Sylvie Fleury
September 24, 2020–April 25, 2021
KANAL-Centre Pompidou, Brussels

In light of recent developments regarding the coronavirus (COVID-19), exhibitions, events and talks are subject to change.

With It Never Ends, a carte blanche given to the Swiss artist John M Armleder, KANAL-Centre Pompidou will open the six floors of its Showroom one last time before its renovation and reopening, scheduled for 2023. With this carte blanche given to one of the leading artists of contemporary art, KANAL-Centre Pompidou confirms its desire to grow by continuing to experiment, following the example of KANAL Brut.

Sylvie Fleury
December 17, 2003–January 31, 2004
Munich

Fleury explores fetishism and power dynamics in various socio-economic contexts. Golden car tyres (glazed ceramics) prepared as fountains appear to be products of the excessive creative ambitions of motor sport fanatics who transform car parts into household objects in order to surround themselves permanently with the object of their fetish, the car.

Fetishism is based on shifts in values and the questioning of traditional power relations; it is private and is usually lived out in secret. Fleury makes it visible where one would not have suspected it.

Sylvie Fleury
September 10–October 2, 1999
Munich

Some art pieces tend somewhat to summarize the main ingredients of an artist's work. Sylvie Fleury's 'Formula One Dress for Hugo Boss' certainly wraps together many topica visited and discussed by the artist through much of her production that count as a seminal contribution to todays contemporary art forum these past years. The Dress, as an art object and as a dress, is emblematic of such investigations by Sylvie Fleury which focus among various fields on art as wrapping device, art as prosthesis, art as customizing processes, art as vehicle on cruise control to the Unknown and further on, recalls the questionning of gender identity and emblems by means of sexual accessorizing and fetishism and other such themes displayed in her works.

Sylvie Fleury
Spring
March 21–April 19, 1997
Galerie Philomene Magers, Bonn

Sylvie Fleury
October 21–December 2, 1994
Bonn