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Mai-Thu Perret, On the branches without buds, flowers bloom; on the trees without shadow, the phoenix dances

Mai-Thu PerretOn the branches without buds, flowers bloom; on the trees without shadow, the phoenix dances, 2024

glazed ceramic

20 1/8 x 16 1/2 x 2 in

About the artist

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.

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