


Sylvie Fleury presents a new interdisciplinary installation, interweaving performance, sculpture, sound, and music in a live exhibition. For nearly four decades, Fleury has mimicked, appropriated, and parodied the aesthetic language of art history and consumer culture, tracing the construction of gendered aesthetics in an increasingly mediatized society, also critiquing the art historical canon through a feminist lens.
For her Performa Commission, Fleury takes the history of action-based performance, including Fluxus and Happenings, as a point of departure to reimagine a series of scores with her own inimitable twist on gender roles, combining action, objects, and sound—with a live improvised composition by JG Thirwell and performers styled by Dauan Jacari.
Co-produced with WSA. Curated by Kathy Noble, Senior Curator. Produced by Caitlin Adams and Will Rubenstein.
Sylvie Fleury's Performa Commission is made possible with the generous support of Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Ford Foundation, Consulate General of Switzerland, Pro Helvetia, and Performa Commissioning Council Members Thaddaeus Ropac, Valeria Napoleone, and Jade Netanya Ullmann. Special thanks to Sprüth Magers and Company Gallery.

