Ursula Mayer. Film

Fondazione Pastificio Cerere is glad to present the personal exhibition of Ursula Mayer. The artist will show two films in 16 mm, which are similar for themes and narrative language : The Lunch in Fur/ Le Déjeuner en Fourrure (2008) and Memories of Mirrors/Theatrical Personalities After Mary Wigman and Madame d'Ora (2007-2008).

The short film The Lunch in Fur/ Le Déjeuner en Fourrure (2008) is a reflection on Surrealism through an entwining between dream and reality. Infact, the title derives from the art work of Meret Oppenheim created in 1936 for the exposition, curated by André Breton, on surrealist objects. Around the coffee cup covered with fur, the three icons of historical Avant-garde take shape: Meret Oppenheim, Josephin Baker and Dora Maar.

Memories of Mirrors/Theatrical Personalities After Mary Wigman and Madame D’Ora develops Mayer's research on movement and repetition/immobility through movement itself. Ranging between Dora Kalmus' photographic poses and Mary Wigman's coreography, the three women move with a theatrical rythm while exchanging a mirror pointed on audience. They seem to be dipped in an eternal present in which everything is suspended, without any way of exit. The scene remains unknowable as an inevitable consequence of the relationship with “the other” reflected by the mirror. The short two films develop around repetition explicated by the impossibility of finding a beginning and an end in the story. The “missing act” determines an insistent tendency to repetition, a neverending ritual circle. Repetition is present in every level of the text: dialogues and editing, flashbacks and rythmic interruption of colours with black/white.

Ursula Mayer
Film
Kurator: Laura Barreca