Mai-Thu Perret

Perret's multidisciplinary project manifests in a number of ways, including film, performance, writings, artifacts, sculptures, and more, all produced by the women in the fictitious commune.

[3]"New Ponderosa Year Zero is the true life story of a group of girls, in their 20s and 30s, who decided to follow the activist Beatrice Mandell and create an autonomous community in the desert country of New Mexico.

Perret often integrates historical figures from art and literature into her work, as with her sculpture Autoprogettazione I (2011), a kiln-fired concrete copy of an Enzo Mari table meant to be produced easily by the general public, revolutionizing the furniture industry in the mid-1970s.

[5] With the new body of work, Les guérillères X (2016), Perret is developing an all-female militia: life-size female figures sculpted from materials such as ceramic, wicker, papier-mâché, latex, bronze, and armed with rifles made of translucent plastic.

Love Letters was choreographed in collaboration with Laurence Yadi, and inspired by American comic- strip artist George Herriman's seminal work Krazy Kat.

In 2016, in conjunction with Sightings, a solo exhibition at the Nasher Sculpture Center in Texas, Perret presented a restaging of the 2014 Figures and a new piece o, described as a "series of interventions throughout the museum.