Mai-Thu Perret: Land of Crystal - Softcover

Walker, Hamza; Stroun, Fabrice; Carmine, Giovanni

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3905701553 ISBN 13: 9783905701555

Publisher: JRP Editions, 2007

Synopsis

Mai-Thu Perret examines the relentless movement of capitalism as it absorbs and defeats what were once revolutionary forms, focusing on the aestheticization of historical avant-gardes to reflect the changing realities of utopian thinking. Her major ongoing project, "The Crystal Frontier," begun in 1999, comprises fictional diary entries and letters written by a group of disillusioned women exiled in the New Mexico desert, as well as myriad artworks that Perret describes as their "hypothetical products." Born in 1975 in Geneva, where she lives and works, Perret studied at Cambridge University and the Whitney Independent Study Program, New York. This comprehensive artist's book, Perret's first monograph, includes a selection of her writings and a specially designed collage of references. Perret's work has recently been seen at The Renaissance Society in Chicago.

About this edition

• Publisher: JRP Editions
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 3905701553
• ISBN 13: 9783905701555
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240
• Editor: Keller Christoph