
Christmas Ornament, Mai-Thu Perret with Ligia Dias
Mai-Thu Perret
Design - 10.5 x 7.6 x 5.6 cm Design - 4.1 x 3 x 2.2 inch
€122
Sculpture : enamel, Porcelain
35 x 30 x 30 cm 13.8 x 11.8 x 11.8 inch
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35 x 30 x 30 cm 13.8 x 11.8 x 11.8 inch Height x Width x Depth
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Artwork location: France
Enameled porcelain.
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2022, is Mai-Thu Perret's first porcelain object. It is modeled after a disposable plastic container for melon flavored ice cream the artist found in a Japanese supermarket.
Perret was fascinated by this cheap replica that mimics the form of a traditional Chinese lidded jar, and undertook to reproduce it in a much larger shape in the classic material of porcelain.
Reflecting on the impact of capitalism and over-consumption on traditional cultures, the artist has chosen to restore the noble aspect of this plastic commodity.
The sculptures, paintings, ceramic works, performances, and texts of Mai-Thu Perret (b. 1976, Geneva) exist at the intersection of contemporary culture, art historical critique, and visceral materiality. She explores (and generates) feminist narratives and counter-narratives that cast the role of the art object in new light, introducing utilitarian, symbolic, and even mystical possibilities in contexts that are often limited to formalist readings. In her encompassing vision, for instance, the development of modernism appears not only as a story about increasing abstraction, but as the outgrowth of biological and neurological patterns that have informed human expression throughout the globe for thousands of years. Perret's work shows how bodies are always implicit subjects of artistic discourse, and how impulses for utopian transcendence (aesthetic, political, or otherwise) can always be traced back to the physicality of desire.
Mai-Thu Perret has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Le Portique – centre régional d'art contemporain du Havre, France (2020), Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Germany (2019); Spike Island, Bristol, England (2019); MAMCO Geneva (Musée d'art moderne et contemporain), Geneva (2019 and 2016); Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas (2016); Le Magasin, Grenoble, France (2012); Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich (2011); University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor (2010); San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2008); and the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago (2006). Recent group exhibitions include the High Line, New York (2021); Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, California (2021); DePaul Art Museum, Chicago (2019); and Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2018). Her work is in the permanent collection of institutions including the Centre National des Arts Plastiques, Paris; Collection Aargauer Kunsthaus, Arau, Switzerland; Fond National d'Art Contemporain, Paris; Migros Museum of Contemporary Art, Zurich; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. Perret lives and works in Geneva.
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