Save the date! Saturday 8 October 6pm Opening of DOUBLE POSITIVE by Sylvie Fleury at Bechtler Stiftung in Uster With contributions by Ursina Gysi, Marc Asekhame, Lisa Preissle, Matthew Linde, JRP Editions, Teo Schifferli, Anais von Holleben-Peiser, among others Sylvie Fleury created her site-specific exhibition in response to the setting of the newly opened building of the Bechtler Stiftung, where The 2000 Sculpture by Walter de Maria is on permanent display. It is a site of contemplation, which is currently confronted with a provocative and unsettling encounter: Fleury’s installation of numerous garment racks containing her entire wardrobe of the past three decades. Upon arrival, we are faced with a display that looks more like a storage facility or a fashion outlet than a museum. We find ourselves wondering if the recent residential and cultural development of the estate, arrayed with several outdoor works of art, has reverted to its former industrial use. A closer look reveals quite the contrary: the humble clothes racks are gloriously aglow and the garments on view are wildly eccentric. High-fashion items give insight into the 1990 fashion avant-garde, into the days of Thierry Mugler, Vivienne Westwood and Jean Paul Gaultier. The accumulated relics of consumerism have been transformed into historical objects worthy of display in a museum. An artist’s book of the same name is part of the exhibition. Annotated by the fashion historian Matthew Linde, it takes us back to Fleury’s beginnings as an artist, recalling her first work from 1991: shopping bags, unopened and filled with freshly acquired luxury products displayed as a readymade sculpture. Archival portraits of the artist at work are as unlikely as her ‘sculpture’; assuming the role of a consumer, she challenges the notion of the artist as a worker and producer. The artist's book Sylvie Fleury. Double Positive is published by JRP Editions on the occasion of the exhibition. @marcasekhame @fleury49000 @bechtlerstiftung @ursinagysi @lisapreissle @jrpeditions @matthewlinde_01 @anclio