Andy Cao & Xavier Perrot
cao | perrot studio is collaborative
in nature. Each Drawing
on diverse cultural backgrounds, Vietnamese American landscape artist Andy Cao and French landscape artist Xavier Perrot create hybrid environments – a blend of art and landscape to make a place for dreaming. Themes of migration, diaspora, and cultural assimilation are an important subtext in their work whose east-meets-west sensibility is guided by intuition and emotions. They draw from memories, fashion, photography, poetry and art to craft incidental landscapes - fusing dreams and reality.
The quest to experiment with new ideas takes them to exotic locales where they recontextualize everyday materials (fishing lines, cut crystals, recycled glass, mother-of-pearl, wire mesh), often collaborating with local artisans. These journeys become a form of reverse pedagogy. This formless-based design lies at the heart of Cao and Perrot’s creative process where serendipity, imagination and beauty coexist through Incidental Place Making. Through observation and unlearning, they weave a personal narrative into dreamlike environments that defy specific meaning yet invite the viewer into a contemplative world of color and sensuality. Revealing “imperfection” as beauty marks gives their work a spontaneous, artisanal feel.
The projects – both temporary and permanent – cut across commercial, artistic and residential boundaries. Cao and Perrot work in diverse scales, and feel as comfortable designing the new 600 acre Guangming Central as a back yard space.
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