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# Flags by Mai-Thu Perret (Switzerland)

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- About Mai-Thu Perret
- "Tbilisi 2. Wednesday Calls the Future" arts festival
- "Tbilisi 3. Let's Stay Alive Till Monday" arts festival
- Banner for Zvezdochka

See also:

- Flags by Swiss Artists
- Switzerland

## About Mai-Thu Perret

Mai-Thu Perret (b. 1976 in Geneva from a Swiss father and a Vietnamese mother; first public exhibition in 2000) is a multi-disciplinary artist (sculpture, painting, video, installation, dance) living and working in Geneva. Getting her inspiration from socialist ideology and radical feminist politics, she is one of the chairs of the "The Crystal Frontier", a project "documenting" the fictitious life of a women's utopian community established in the desert of New Mexico.
http://www.hebdo.ch/artiste_ventriloque_77760_.html [retrieved] ("L'Hebdo", 22 October 2010)
http://www.davidkordanskygallery.com/?n=artists&aid=23&c=biography [not archived] (David Kordansky Gallery)
http://www.vogue.it/en/uomo-vogue/people/2011/05/mai-thu-perret [retrieved] ("Vogue", 27 May 2011)
In 2010, Mai-Thu Perret "re-designed" the Swiss flag for the Swiss Institute in New York, as already presented here. Other of her installations include flags.

Ivan Sache, 17 September 2012

## "Tbilisi 2. Wednesday Calls the Future" arts festival

image by Ivan Sache, 17 September 2012

The "Tbilisi 2. Wednesday Calls the Future" arts festival was organized on 2–13 October 2005 in Tbilisi (Georgia) by Swiss and Georgian partners. As part of an installation, Mai-Thu Perret designed a white square flag charged with red teeth at the bottom.
http://www.tbilisi2.com/index.php?c=detail&detail_id=42&id=11 [retrieved] (Installation's page)
Photos:
http://www.tbilisi2.com/content/uploads/perret_flag_02.jpg [retrieved]
http://www.tbilisi2.com/content/uploads/perret_zybach_02.jpg [not archived]

Ivan Sache, 17 September 2012

## "Tbilisi 3. Let's Stay Alive Till Monday" arts festival

image by Ivan Sache, 17 September 2012

The "Tbilisi 3. Let's Stay Alive Till Monday" arts festival was organized on 28 October – 10 November 2006 in Tbilisi (Georgia) by Swiss and Georgian partners. As part of an installation realized with Jutta Koether and Justin Beal, Mai-Thu Perret designed a pale yellow flag with a disk vertically divided black-white, a much smaller, dark blue disk at the lower right of the main disk, and a small x-cross at the lower right of the smaller disk.
http://www.tbilisi3.com/index.php?c=detail&detail_id=27&id=14 (Installation's page)
Photos:
http://www.tbilisi3.com/content/uploads/jutta_koether_perret_01.jpg
http://www.tbilisi3.com/content/uploads/opening_tbilisi_3_copy1.jpg
http://www.tbilisi3.com/content/uploads/maithu_perret_03k.jpg

Ivan Sache, 17 September 2012

## Banner for Zvezdochka

image by Ivan Sache, 17 September 2012

In 2007, Mai-Thu Perret presented at the Galerie Barbara Weiss (Berlin) the "Banner for Zvezdochka". The banner is made of cotton, in size 170 cm x 132 cm, made of a white field with a black almond-shaped zone in the middle.
http://www.artnet.com/artwork/426021582/423861818/mai-thu-perret-banner-for-zvezdochka.html [retrieved] (Artnet website)
Mai-Thu Perret News (artnet.com)

Ivan Sache, 17 September 2012

- "Zvezdochka" (Russian for "little star") most commonly refers to a high-damage, craftable melee weapon in the video game Atomic Heart, known for its rotating saw blades. It also refers to a 2004 modular sneaker designed by Marc Newson for Nike, as well as being a Russian term for small gears or asterisks.