The Art of Survival/Baby Doll Saloon
Galerie Mehdi Chouakri•May 03, 2025 — Jul 16, 2025
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At the heart of the intuitive and almost experimental collaboration between Sylvie Fleury and Angela Bulloch—now brought together in the exhibition THE ART OF SURVIVAL / BABY DOLL SALOON in Charlottenburg—are a series of firework performances the artists staged in London (1993), Dijon (1994), and Berlin (1999). Rather than bursting into color across the sky, the fireworks in these works seemed to explode within the space itself. Soot marks left behind on white walls bore witness to the pyrotechnic interventions. These attacks on the interior—long symbolically charged as the realm of the domestic and confined— can be read as a casual yet sharp critique of a visual tradition that, for centuries, has placed women within enclosed, private settings: from Vermeer’s The Lacemaker (c. 1670), to the impressionist paintings of Berthe Morisot, to Edgar Degas’ Woman Ironing (1887).
In their second joint exhibition in 1999 at Mehdi Chouakri in Berlin (once again presented in collaboration with…
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The Art of Survival/Baby Doll Saloon
Galerie Mehdi Chouakri•May 03, 2025 — Jul 16, 2025
Press Release
At the heart of the intuitive and almost experimental collaboration between Sylvie Fleury and Angela Bulloch—now brought together in the exhibition THE ART OF SURVIVAL / BABY DOLL SALOON in Charlottenburg—are a series of firework performances the artists staged in London (1993), Dijon (1994), and Berlin (1999). Rather than bursting into color across the sky, the fireworks in these works seemed to explode within the space itself. Soot marks left behind on white walls bore witness to the pyrotechnic interventions. These attacks on the interior—long symbolically charged as the realm of the domestic and confined— can be read as a casual yet sharp critique of a visual tradition that, for centuries, has placed women within enclosed, private settings: from Vermeer’s The Lacemaker (c. 1670), to the impressionist paintings of Berthe Morisot, to Edgar Degas’ Woman Ironing (1887).
In their second joint exhibition in 1999 at Mehdi Chouakri in Berlin (once again presented in collaboration with…
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