Les guerilleres5/27/2023 ![]() ![]() Her recent work continues as an exploded version of this foundational text. Through diary entries, abstract paintings, and artisanal objects, Perret constructed a piecemeal fictional narrative describing life at the commune. At the beginning of her career, Perret worked on a series called “The Crystal Frontier,” which documented her participation in a women’s commune based in New Mexico. An exploration of militant women returns in Les Guérillères (Viet Cong), which features a photograph of an unidentified woman holding a machine gun in repose, seemingly taped to a backing that features four black bands of looping scrawl.Ĭiting influences such as utopian feminist literature, art theory, Russian Constructivism, and the Arts & Crafts movement, Mai-Thu Perret’s diverse body of work encompasses sculpture, painting, video, and installation. In Féminaire, her 2017 exhibition at David Kordansky Gallery, Mai-Thu Perret created a tableau of monumental figures, comprising nine female soldiers and one dog at rest atop a plateau-like white plinth. ![]()
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