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Mai-Thu Perret (b. 1976 in Geneva from a Swiss father and a Vietnamese
mother; first public exhibition in 2000) is a multi-disciplinary artist
(sculpture, painting, video, installation, dance) living and working in
Geneva. Getting her inspiration from socialist ideology and radical feminist
politics, she is one of the chairs of the "The Crystal Frontier", a project
"documenting" the fictitious life of a women's utopian community established
in the desert of New Mexico.
http://www.hebdo.ch/artiste_ventriloque_77760_.html ("L'Hebdo", 22 October 2010)
http://www.davidkordanskygallery.com/?n=artists&aid=23&c=biography
(David Kordansky Gallery)
http://www.vogue.it/en/uomo-vogue/people/2011/05/mai-thu-perret
("Vogue",
27 May 2011)
In 2010, Mai-Thu Perret "re-designed" the Swiss flag for
the Swiss Institute in New York, as already presented here. Other of her
installations include flags.
Ivan Sache, 17 September 2012
image by Ivan Sache, 17 September 2012
The "Tbilisi 2. Wednesday Calls the Future"
arts festival was organized on 2–13 October 2005 in Tbilisi (Georgia) by
Swiss and Georgian partners. As part of an installation, Mai-Thu Perret
designed a white square flag charged with red teeth at the bottom.
http://www.tbilisi2.com/index.php?c=detail&detail_id=42&id=11 (Installation's page)
Photos:
http://www.tbilisi2.com/content/uploads/perret_flag_02.jpg
http://www.tbilisi2.com/content/uploads/perret_zybach_02.jpg
Ivan Sache, 17 September 2012
image by Ivan Sache, 17 September 2012
The "Tbilisi 3. Let's Stay Alive Till Monday" arts
festival was organized on 28 October – 10 November 2006 in Tbilisi (Georgia) by
Swiss and Georgian partners. As part of an installation realized with Jutta
Koether and Justin Beal, Mai-Thu Perret designed a pale yellow flag with a
disk vertically divided black-white, a much smaller, dark blue disk at the
lower right of the main disk, and a small x-cross at the lower right of the
smaller disk.
http://www.tbilisi3.com/index.php?c=detail&detail_id=27&id=14
(Installation's page)
Photos:
http://www.tbilisi3.com/content/uploads/jutta_koether_perret_01.jpg
http://www.tbilisi3.com/content/uploads/opening_tbilisi_3_copy1.jpg
http://www.tbilisi3.com/content/uploads/maithu_perret_03k.jpg
Ivan Sache, 17 September 2012
image by Ivan Sache, 17 September 2012
In 2007, Mai-Thu Perret presented at the Galerie
Barbara Weiss (Berlin) the "Banner for Zvezdochka". The banner is made of
cotton, in size 170 cm x 132 cm, made of a white field with a black
almond-shaped zone in the middle.
http://www.artnet.com/artwork/426021582/423861818/mai-thu-perret-banner-for-zvezdochka.html (Artnet website)
Photo:
http://www.artnet.com/artwork_images_423861818_551281_mai-thu-perret.jpg
Ivan Sache, 17 September 2012