Gonda – Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art

Informed by Ayn Rand’s 1934 play Ideal, Gonda is a critical counter to Rand’s position, creating kaleidoscopic printed spaces in which image and text shift roles to affect presupposed ideals of identity and existence. Noting how the cinematic image actually gazes back on us, Mayer utilises highly stylised and precisely composed imagery. The film features Dutch transgender model Valentijn de Hingh, familiar to visitors of Mayer’s solo exhibition at the Centre of Contemporary Art in Warsaw What Will Survive of Us from her latest film work The Fire of Knowledge Burns All Karma to Ashes. [adapted from Ursula Mayer]