TRISHA BAGA
Born in 1985
The work of Trisha Baga combines different media to explore themes such as gender identity, the mechanics of language and the relationship between the real and digital world. A preference for video and performance is accompanied by experiments in the production of sculpture or installation, and often ceramics as well as the collection of found objects. Her productions are characterized in general by a non-linear, open, permeable, intuitive quality. Materials and fragments from disparate aesthetic and semantic universes are freely incorporated, such as the imagery of television and cinema, and the language of the documentary or home video. The 3D film The Voice (2017) is representative of the artist’s fluid and open compositional practice. It weaves together audio tracks from soundtracks of different musical genres and offscreen voices into a visual sequence of heterogeneous scenes: newspaper photographs; filming in the studio, during family trips or during simple daily activities; superimposed images; and subtitles. The work as a whole is articulated as a space in which the different elements that compose it open up to new possibilities of meaning. It is a field of free, spontaneous connections, similar to those of a dreamlike journey, where reality and fiction, memories and visions come together in a single magmatic fabric. The ordinary office chairs that accompany the installation and on which the visitor is invited to sit revisit the relationship between object and subject, acting as interferences or incursions between one dimension and another.