Formally, most of Mai-Thu Perret’s abstract neon works belong to the series of works in which the artist deals with Hilma Af Klint. In numerous minimalist paintings and works on paper with brightly colored circles and other geometric shapes, Perret both quotes and acknowledges the Swedish pioneer of painting. These three neon wall works from 2014, each in a different color, form an oval circle that is turned inwards at the bottom by two curls and closed off by a third part – here organically protruding inwards in an abstract form. The shape, which is mirrored across the central axis, suggests several anthropomorphic images, such as the ultrasound image of an embryo, a phallic form or even the image of a brain (the internal title of the work is “half brain”). When asked by the artist, the original source of the form is a decorative fragment of the marbled floor of one of the most important baroque churches in Italy, namely St. Peter’s in Rome. Placed several times in circles around the cathedra of Peter, the architectural decoration (each 2.5 m in diameter) is composed of volutes projecting inwards and outwards.