Friday 21 August

Flash Visit : Sylvia Sleigh Exhibition

Sylvia Sleigh’s portraiture challenges conventional representations through nuanced figuration and a subversive reversal of traditional gender roles. This presentation highlights her painterly technique, from meticulous brushwork to a restrained palette, alongside selected works that interrogate art-historical narratives and institutional biases. Viewers are invited to observe the artist’s reworking of perspective and presence, where everyday subjects gain dignity and agency and the conventions of the male gaze are critically reconfigured.

Place de Neuve 1,
1204 Genève
Photo Credit: DR
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Photo Credit: DR

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