Designed as immersive portfolios, this survey of Mai-Thu Perret's career highlights her mixed-media works combining craft-making techniques with feminist and avant-garde scholarship
Hbk, 7.5 x 10.5 in. / 368 pgs / 250 color. | 1/13/2026 | Awaiting stock $50.00
Published by JRP|Editions. Edited by Clément Dirié. Text by Anne Dressen, Ariana Reines, Giovanna Zapperi. Interview by Ida Soulard.
For the last 25 years, French Swiss visual artist Mai-Thu Perret (born 1976) has built an acclaimed body of work that merges a talent for storytelling and a deep understanding of how visual art can be a powerful discourse through which to raise and solve contemporary issues. Her sculptures, paintings, ceramic works, textile works, performances and text pieces exist at the intersection of contemporary culture, art-historical critique and visceral materiality. She explores—and generates—feminist narratives and counternarratives that cast the role of the art object in a new light, introducing utilitarian, symbolic and even mystical possibilities in contexts that are often limited to formalist readings. With new essays by noted scholars and an extensive conversation between the artist and French art critic and curator Ida Soulard, this comprehensive monograph spans the artist's practice over the last 10 years.
Published by JRP|Ringier. Edited by Lionel Bovier. Text by Diedrich Diederichsen, Elisabeth Lebovici, Jacob Proctor, Dorothea Strauss.
Mai-Thu Perret's earliest project was The Crystal Frontier, comprised of writings and objects that describe the lives of a group of women living in a utopian commune in the New Mexico desert. This volume surveys the artist's utopia-themed oeuvre, which often draws on the political aspirations of the modernist avant garde.
Published by JRP|Ringier. Text by Hamza Walker, Paula van den Bosch, Fabrice Stroun, Giovanni Carmine.
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.
Mai-Thu Perret
Mai-Thu Perret: Land of Crystal