February 10, 2020
2-TIMES • Art
Mai-Thu Perret,
‘News From Nowhere’
@ Simon Lee Gallery
—
“Blending utopian
socialism with science
fiction, the narrative
follows William Guest,
who after returning
home from a meeting
of the Socialist League,
wakes the next morning
to find himself catapulted
into the twenty-first
century and into a world
beyond all recognition...”
Born:
1976 – Geneva,
Switzerland.
‘News From Nowhere’:
Derives from British
polymath and socialist
activist, William Morris’
1890 novel of the same
name.
The exhibition:
Is the Swiss-born artist's
second solo at the Hong
Kong gallery; evolving
across installation,
performance, sculpture,
ceramics and textiles,
Perret's continually
expanding fiction also
encompasses a range
of twentieth-century
avant-garde & radical
art movements.
“Perret’s blend of the
traditional and artisanal
with a postmodern
aesthetic interrogates
the social and political,
engendering a full vision
that rejects hegemonic
narratives in favour of a
critical questioning of
communal identity.”
On view at:
Simon Lee Gallery
—
304 3/F, The Pedder
Building, 12 Pedder
Street, Central,
Hong Kong.
Closes:
March 28, 2020.
Mai-Thu Perret @ Simon Lee Gallery
PHOTOGRAPHY /
© 2020 Mai-Thu Perret
—
All images & content:
Courtesy of The Artist
&
Simon Lee Gallery
—
Photos:
Kitmin Lee
CREDITS /


















