Les Guérillères (AKS-47) – Pink
Artwork details
- Artist
- Mai-Thu Perret
- Title
- Les Guérillères (AKS-47) – Pink
- Description
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Technique: Polyester resin sculpture.
Signature: Certificate of Authenticity signed by the artist, numbered and stamped by our publishing house.
On the occasion of a solo show at the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas in 2016, Mai-Thu Perret presented a new body of work entitled Les Guérillères. This series consisted in a female group composed of stylized figures with readily-identifiable accessories (combat fatigues, military boots, machine guns). The title of the figures is borrowed from a 1969 novel by Monique Wittig that tells the speculative story of a war waged by women to take control of society. Its militant protagonists find echoes in Perret’s sculptures, which are also informed by the YPJ, a real-world female militia that has been fighting in the ongoing Syrian civil war. For JRP, Mai-Thu Perret has chosen to isolate the most important accessory worn by these “Guérillères” sculptures; the Kalashnikov gun, to turn the object into a special limited edition. The weapon appears as a true symbol of feminist struggle and resistance and explores by its material the strength and fragility through the use of pink polyester resin for the weapon.
- Date
- 2022
- Medium
- Multiple Sculpture
- Edition
- 25
- Signature
- Signed
- Dimensions
- 85 cm x 25 cm x 13 cm (33.46 in. x 9.82 in. x 5.12 in.) cm
- Status
- Available
- Price
- Price on request
