This work, created on the occasion of the 2008 retrospective by Sylvie Fleury (1961, Geneva), was offered to the museum by the artist in 2011. It was restored in 2012 through the support of the Fondation BNP Paribas. At first sight Fleury’s grotto seems to be the reverse of her work: instead of the themes of consumption and luxury, she offers a somber bareness; instead of the astral voyages suggested by her rockets and flying saucers, she proposes a space for looking inward. The grotto is the ultimate return to the womb. It invites visitors to explore in a way that is also introspective, as the title exhorts us: Be Good! Be Bad! Just Be! taken from a perfume ad and thus returning us to the world of consumption. One of the guiding principles of Fleury’s work is to question the contrast between superficiality and inwardness. Be Good! Be Bad! Just Be! can therefore be perceived as a melting pot where this Genevan artist’s many themes are blended together, before emerging as the more familiar extravagant forms associated with her work.