Sylvie Fleury Simili Black, 2023

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. Simili Black (2023) shows crossed legs made of lacquered fiberglass, draped with a black coat and attached to the wall like the bottom half of a mannequin, a testament to the lineage of the readymade. The protruding legs disrupt our accustomed relationship between bodies and their surroundings, unsettling us and evoking a sense of physical uncertainty.