Sylvie Fleury Couture Palette - Ballets Russes, 2018
Acrylic on canvas on wood
143 x 106 x 6,72 cm (56,3 x 41,73 x 2,65 in)
With her monumental makeup palettes, Fleury questions the structures of desire and power attached to cosmetic objects and investigates the grey areas of a pictorial genre often considered as a hybrid between painting and sculpture: the shaped canvas. The different colours contained within dedicated zones of varying depth contrast sharply with the background in a manner that is not dissimilar to Colour Field painting. They also express a sense of duality and balance that connect them to Taoist principles.
