Mai-Thu Perret: Galerie Barbara Weiss.(contemporary art exhibition)

"Je est un autre" (I Is Somebody Else), Arthur Rimbaud once declared. But what if Rimbaud's "I" were a group of women--a band of disgruntled urbanites who have abandoned their Palm Pilots to live an unscheduled life in the desert? Mai-Thu Perret explores this possibility with "The Crystal Frontier," an ongoing project about a fictional all-female commune in New Mexico whose inhabitants raise chickens, cows, horses, and rabbits.

Since 1999, Perret has been writing the story of this Utopian community and creating curious objects that might be its ...

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