Vanity Fair: Sylvie Fleury at Salon 94

For her first major New York solo show in over a decade, conceptual artist Sylvie Fleury transforms the basement of Salon 94 on the Bowery into a candystriped space, where high minimalism mingles with consumer fashion. For the exhibition, Fleury recreates her 1997 film Walking on Carl Andre, in which women wearing chunky platforms and metallic heels gingerly walk across Andre's floor sculptures like catwalk models. But this time, Fleury allows exhibition-goers to walk the walk themselves, with the stilettos that are provided. The camera on-hand encourages visitors to film themselves, and if that isn't enough to satisfy your vanity, a sleek razor blade-shaped mirror creates even more opportunities for some artistic selfies.

Among the works on the striped walls (a nod to painter Daniel Buren) are three of Fleury’s steel monochrome Crash Test panels, their polished candy-colored surfaces deformed by large dents and scratches alluding to the wreckage of consumerist culture. Cosmic Egg, a neon sculpture made from rainbow colored lights, hangs high and adds a fluorescent glow to the spectacle below. Overall, the exhibition is a visually provocative wonderland that is certainly worth the visit.

Through April 27, 2013.

SALON 94 BOWERY
243 Bowery
New York, NY 10002
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Image by Salon 94