![]() ![]() They sit or stand, self-conscious, fierce, at times weary, pensive, or not displaying any emotion at all numb and inanimate. ISIS, but, in doing so, also fighting the very structures within their own society. ![]() The Y.P.J.’s bold mission is to defeat fascism and end patriarchy by constructing an alternative society based on equality and freedom. – the notorious all-female Kurdish militant ‘Women’s Defense Unit’, hailing from Kobanê, the capital city of the predominantly Kurdish region of Rojava in northern Syria. Building on its seemingly anachronistic utopian trope – that of a self-asserting, autonomous feminist art commune in the New Mexican Desert – Perret has added a new twist to the so-far fictional dreamscape by explicitly referencing the very real struggle of the Y.P.J. 53.1 x 24.8 x 31.5 (inch) Mai-Thu Perret / Les Guérillères XIIįor Art Basel 16, Mai-Thu Perret has created a new figurine for the Les Guérillèrres series, part of an ongoing exploration of a project she started some 16 years ago: The Crystal Frontier. ![]()
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