After Coco

A look at Sylvie Fleury's devotion to luxury ahead of her new commission for Performa and an exhibition at Sprüth Magers, New York

- Paige K. Bradley

AN OPAQUE, lacquered case of sensuously curving angles which, when unclasped, reveals a compact quadrant of dazzling eyeshadows and highlighter – the lightest swipe of a fingertip can illuminate your look. Or: a small yet cumbersomely shaped black box with anywhere between one and four compressed mounds of variously coloured powders - you can rub them on your face. Two ways to say the same thing.