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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