Mai-Thu Perret

Perret creates sculptures, paintings, drawings, site-specific installations, performances, texts, and other works that, when taken together, constitute an artistic world woven by material relationships, cultural allusions, and embodied abstractions. While she has availed herself of a wide range of mediums, Perret’s use of ceramics has served as a clearinghouse for sculptural experimentation in which a wide range of techniques and approaches to color and texture have resulted in objects of varied scales, types, and conceptual orientations. This exhibition will include a wall-mounted ceramic work, among Perret’s largest and most ambitious to date; a figurative ceramic sculpture based on a digital scan of an ancient sculpture of the goddess Minerva; and smaller ceramic works dedicated to animal and other forms.

Mai-Thu Perret (b. 1976, Geneva) was the subject of a 2022 solo exhibition at Istituto Svizzero, Rome, and the subject of a 2019 survey exhibition at MAMCO Genève (Musée d’art moderne et contemporain). She has also been the subject of solo exhibitions at Le Portique – centre régional d’art contemporain du Havre, France (2020); Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Germany (2019); Spike Island, Bristol, England (2019); Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas (2016); Le Magasin, Grenoble, France (2012); Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich (2011); University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor (2010); San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2008); and Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago (2006). Her work is in the permanent collections of institutions including the Centre National des Arts Plastiques, Paris; Collection Aargauer Kunsthaus, Arau, Switzerland; Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, Paris; Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. Perret lives and works in Geneva.

The show runs until April 22, 2023.

Minerva III  •  2022

Minerva III

Glazed ceramic

60 1/4 x 33 1/2 x 23 3/4 inches

Photo: Mareike Tocha

Courtesy of David Kordansky Gallery

2022  •  Photo: Mareike Tocha 
Courtesy of David Kordansky Gallery

Turn left, turn right, utterly free  •  2022

Turn left, turn right, utterly free

Glazed ceramic

19 3/4 x 15 3/4 x 3 1/8 inches

Photo: Mareike Tocha
Courtesy of David Kordansky Gallery

2022  •  Photo: Mareike Tocha 
Courtesy of David Kordansky Gallery

She escapes the diamond pitfall and eats up the prickly thorns  •  2022

She escapes the diamond pitfall and eats up the prickly thorns

Glazed ceramic

19 3/4 x 15 3/4 x 2 3/4 inches
Photo: Mareike Tocha 

Courtesy of David Kordansky Gallery

2022  •  Photo: Mareike Tocha 
Courtesy of David Kordansky Gallery

Installation view of Mother Sky at David Kordansky Los Angeles  •

Installation view of Mother Sky at David Kordansky Los Angeles

 •  Photo: Mareike Tocha 
Courtesy of David Kordansky Gallery