SYLVIE FLEURY – SHE-DEVILS ON WHEELS
2025-11-10She-Devils On Wheels, Fleury’s first solo exhibition in New York, brings together recent and historical sculptures, an installation, neon works, and videos. The title She-Devils On Wheels refers both to the installation She-Devils on Wheels Headquarters (2000) and to Fleury’s own motoring club of the same name.
She-Devils on Wheels Headquarters (2000) draws on a 1968 film about an all-female motorcycle gang, The Man-Eaters, and Fleury’s own women-only motoring club, founded in the 1990s after she was refused membership to a car-racing club. The installation includes a red mural with blocky lettering spelling “SHE-DEVILS ON WHEELS,” a large-scale neon reading “HOT HEELS,” blown-up magazine covers and club merchandise—badges, caps, stickers and T-shirts. The work establishes sharp parallels between the paraphernalia of femininity and the tools of motorsport culture, offering an ironic critique of gendered rituals and obsessions.
Opposite – Installation view
Exhibition runs through to December 20th, 2025
Sprüth Magers
22 East 80th Street, 2nd Floor
NY 10075
New York
