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WHAT WILL SURVIVE OF US
2019
Warsaw,
Poland
Ujazdowski Castle
Centre for
Contemporary Art
UjazdowskiCastle Centre for Contemporary Art
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Distant sci-fi scenarios have now become our reality. Today, the distinction between nature and culture is no longer tenable. We inhabit a future in which humans are no longer the measure of all things. The exhibition resembles a living organism, a temple, or a sci-fi film set—an immersive space covered in ash and clay that engages all the senses. In this context, we are no longer autonomous, finite identities, but are constantly becoming through our relationships with non-human beings and machines. Technology and biology here shape a new realm governed by a Sanskrit-generated algorithm. Mayer draws on post-humanist ontology, referencing thinkers such as Rosi Braidotti and Donna Haraway, while also engaging with the philosophy of science, Eastern cosmology, and the works of sci-fi authors Octavia E. Butler and Ursula K. Le Guin.