Sylvie Fleury: Turn Me On
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Author: Lucrezia Calabrò Visconti
A ‘punk feminist in disguise’, as she calls herself, since the late 1980s Sylvie Fleury has been confronting the mechanisms of the production of desire and construction of value, and how they interact with gender politics. This publication accompanies the exhibition of the same name at the Pinacoteca Agnelli in Turin. It is not a traditional catalogue but a magazine, a favourite object of Fleury, both as a cultural fetish capable of providing a snapshot of its time, and as a tool of self-definition.Objects, symbols and imageries from diverse fields – fashion, cinema, pop subcultures, science fiction – are absorbed into Fleury’s visual vocabulary and employed to construct unexpected narratives, that question the paradigms of Western art history.Art theories and practices are channelled into a fashion magazine, in columns, short essays, fashion spreads, glossaries, interviews, advertising, and, obviously, a horoscope; beside the texts, the publication features spreads, including exclusive behind-the-scenes images of Fleury’s videos and installations, some never-before-seen photos unearthed from her archives, and a shoot of artist in the Lingotto.
ISBN 9791254930212. Edizioni Corraini. pb. 256 pages. 27.5 x 21 cm.
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A ‘punk feminist in disguise’, as she calls herself, since the late 1980s Sylvie Fleury has been confronting the mechanisms of the production of desire and construction of value, and how they interact with gender politics. This publication accompanies the exhibition of the same name at the Pinacoteca Agnelli in Turin. It is not a traditional catalogue but a magazine, a favourite object of Fleury, both as a cultural fetish capable of providing a snapshot of its time, and as a tool of self-definition.Objects, symbols and imageries from diverse fields – fashion, cinema, pop subcultures, science fiction – are absorbed into Fleury’s visual vocabulary and employed to construct unexpected narratives, that question the paradigms of Western art history.Art theories and practices are channelled into a fashion magazine, in columns, short essays, fashion spreads, glossaries, interviews, advertising, and, obviously, a horoscope; beside the texts, the publication features spreads, including exclusive behind-the-scenes images of Fleury’s videos and installations, some never-before-seen photos unearthed from her archives, and a shoot of artist in the Lingotto.
ISBN 9791254930212. Edizioni Corraini. pb. 256 pages. 27.5 x 21 cm.
available