The artist Sylvie Fleury pays tribute to Miami’s love of all things neon with Eternity Now—her new 33-foot-long site-specific installation for the façade of the Bass Museum of Art, which is currently closed for renovation until autumn 2016. Fleury, whose work comments on consumer society and cultural desire, told The Art Newspaper she was excited to engage with the “stunning” stone Art Deco building—which has proven to be a fitting backdrop for the work’s sans serif lettering. She also says the use of neon fits both with her oeuvre and the city’s aesthetic. Although she finds the concept of Eternity Now interesting in terms of art, the fair circuit and issues of “decay” and “ephemerality”, she does not want it to have one prescribed message. “If you give it meaning, then people stop thinking. So that’s not good.”
