Mai-Thu Perret
Yesterday Rain, Clear Skies Tomorrow, 2019
Glazed Ceramic
48 x 37 x 5 cm
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Mai-Thu Perret (b. 1976) is a Swiss artist of Franco-Vietnamese origin whose multidisciplinary, installation-based, and performative work combines feminist politics with literary texts, homemade crafts and 20th century avant-garde aesthetics....
Mai-Thu Perret (b. 1976) is a Swiss artist of Franco-Vietnamese origin whose multidisciplinary, installation-based, and performative work combines feminist politics with literary texts, homemade crafts and 20th century avant-garde aesthetics.
Perret’s interest in ancient civilisations and their ‘new age’ interpretation has seen the creation of invented relics, blending traditional, artisanal and spiritual practices with a postmodern aesthetic. In new ceramic wall reliefs and baskets, she invokes the plastic nature of clay, a tactile material that loses its elasticity once it is fired in the kiln yet never escapes its relationship to the artist’s intuitive touch. According to the artist, ceramics are intimately connected with the body, each composition at once figurative and painterly due to its gestural facture.
Perret’s interest in ancient civilisations and their ‘new age’ interpretation has seen the creation of invented relics, blending traditional, artisanal and spiritual practices with a postmodern aesthetic. In new ceramic wall reliefs and baskets, she invokes the plastic nature of clay, a tactile material that loses its elasticity once it is fired in the kiln yet never escapes its relationship to the artist’s intuitive touch. According to the artist, ceramics are intimately connected with the body, each composition at once figurative and painterly due to its gestural facture.
