Every semester, ZHdK's Department of Fine Arts presents a series of public talks with various guests from the contemporary art and culture sector.
Mai-Thu Perret
Wednesday, 10 April 2024, 6:00 pm
Room 3.E08, Toni-Areal, Pfingstweidstrasse 96, 8031 Zurich
Born in 1976, Mai-Thu Perret’s distinctive practice crosses a broad range of disciplines, from sculpture to film, ceramics and performance, incorporating multiple references (from avant-garde movements of the 20th century to Oriental philosophy) and fusing disparate methodologies culled from her academic literary background and her experience as a curator. Perret’s work draws on early feminist literature and science fiction as well as the modernist movements of Dada, Constructivism, and Bauhaus design. From these utopian and dystopian discourses, she builds discontinuous and expansive narratives that contextualize the objects she makes while evoking alternative, female-focused histories and futures. In 2022 she presented her work at the Swiss Institute in Rome and also had a duo show with works by Sophie Tauber Arp at Cabaret Voltaire Zurich. In 2019, she was the subject of a survey exhibition at MAMCO Geneva. She has had numerous other solo exhibitions in internationally renowned museums and galleries.