With All My Love, 2023
Flag (purple), 2018
Flag (yellow), 2018
Sylvie Fleury’s works were exhibited at the Shedhalle in 1992. As an artist whose works consistently, playfully, and ironically promote the deconstruction of traditional gender stereotypes, her position is consistent with feminist concerns that were influential here early on.
This time she is showing two works: in a humorous and playful manner, flag yellow and flag purple invite viewers to maintain their own perspective based on the ambivalent intertwining of activism, glamour, fashion, lifestyle, and protest. This may be a commentary on the hybridization of formerly more separate areas that are increasingly merging as a result of digitalization and social media.
With All My Love offers visitors associative critical spaces that evoke forms of the contemporary attention economy—yet the work refuses to be clearly categorized and remains an enigma. Love as a core motif of Loving Shedhalle is also evident here in an ambivalent way, as value production, waste, luxury, and emotional labor are condensed into the inextricable knot between artwork, commodity, and everyday object.
Sylvie Fleury (b. 1961) is a contemporary Swiss artist. Her practice reflects on society’s fascination with glamour, fashion and luxury goods and considers prevalent notions of consumption and production. Since her first exhibition Shopping Bags in 1991, Fleury has had numerous solo and group exhibitions throughout Europe and the United States. Recent solo exhibitions include Kunsthal Rotterdam, Rotterdam (2024); Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Winterthur (2023), Pinacoteca Agnelli, Turin (2023); Aranya Art Center, China (2022); the Kunstraum Dornbirn, Austria (2019); Istituto Svizzero, Rome (2019); Villa Stuck, Munich (2016); Eternity Now, as part of the permanent collection at the Bass Museum, Miami (2017 and 2015); Centro de arte contemporaneo de Malága (2011); and MAMCO Genève (2008). Her work has also been presented in group shows internationally, including at the Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich (2024); Foundation Louis Vuitton, Paris (2024); MAMCO, Geneva (2024); The Bass, Miami Beach (2023); Daimler Contemporary, Berlin (2019); Leopold Museum, Vienna (2018); Kunsthaus Zürich (2018); Museum Haus Konstruktiv, Zürich (2016); SCHAUWERK Sindelfingen (2014); Kunstverein Hannover (2011); and Kunstverein Frankfurt (2011). In 2018 she was awarded Switzerland’s Prix Meret Oppenheim and in 2015 received the Société des Arts de Genève Prize.
Her works were presented at the Shedhalle in 1992.
