Mai-Thu Perret at Timothy Taylor Gallery, LDN, 18 Sept - 18 Oct

Exhibition Description:

The Swiss born artist Mai-Thu Perret, has recently become well known internationally for her ambitious multi-disciplinary practice encompassing sculpture, painting, video and installation. Her work relates to modernism and its revolutionary potential, she has created a complex oeuvre that combines radical feminist politics with literary utopian texts and homemade crafts.

This is Perret's first exhibition at the gallery and is titled 2012, which refers to the date of a change of era in the 'long count' Mayan calendar which started over 5000 years ago. This event suggests to many the dawn of a new age.

Perret likes to play with new age belief in mystical phenomena, which she has pursued in her meta-narrative The Crystal Frontier, where she explores the concept of an all female, radically-minded community in retreat from capitalist society somewhere in the New Mexico desert.

Initially spawned from diary entries and letters, The Crystal Frontier, which was started in 1999, resulted in sculptures, paintings, handcrafted ceramics, performances, films, posters, mannequins, furniture and banners, essentially proposed as the diverse output of the members of this fictional commune.

This exhibition is dominated by a new series of glazed ceramic wall reliefs that are earthy and tactile in nature, hovering between figuration and abstraction, between the ancient world and the avowedly contemporary.

Description:

Image: Mai-Thu Perret
Heart and Soul IX, 2007
Ceramics
26 3/8 x 19 1/8 x 2 in. / 67 x 48.5 x 5 cm

Born in Geneva in 1976 and educated at Cambridge University, Perret has solo exhibitions forthcoming at both San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in November 2008 and Aspen Art Museum in February 2009. In 2007 she had a solo exhibition at Maastricht's Bonnefanten Museum, participated in the Lyon Biennale and in Eurocentric at the Rubell Family Collection in Miami.

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