Milan, Pirelli HangarBicocca hosts the first Italian exhibition of the American Trisha Baga

Pirelli HangarBicocca in Milan hosts the first exhibition in Italy of Trisha Baga (Venice, Florida, 1985), an American artist of Filipino origin who studied art at two prestigious institutions in New York(The Cooper Union School of Art and Bard College), where she still lives and works.

The exhibition is titled The eye, the eye and the ear and traces Biga’s entire output, from her first work There’ s No “I” in Trisha (2005-2007), conceived as a TV sitcom in which the artist plays all the roles, to the most recent work 1620 (2020) created for the occasion. Bringing together five large video installations investigating the relationship between the body and technology, the exhibition also presents a rich selection of ceramics made since 2015 and six works from the series Seed Paint ings (2017), paintings composed using sesame seeds. She combines different languages and media in her works and draws from television, film and home movie imagery to address themes such as gender identity and the relationship between the real and digital worlds, bringing out a different perspective of contemporaneity.

The exhibition is a journey along the media that have punctuated Trisha Baga’s practice (moving from VHS, to DVD to 3D) and is rooted in her performance practice: visitors themselves are asked to walk through it wearing stereoscopic lenses of 3D glasses, in an immersive environment that expands the physical space into numerous visual and sound layers.

The exhibition’s display also harks back to the characteristic setups of natural history museums, not only in the presentation of the works, but also because of an unusual classificatory approach that relates the idea of the fossil to technological devices, such as virtual personal assistants, creating temporal short-circuits.

The exhibition opens Feb. 20 through July 19.

For all information you can visit the official website of Pirelli HangarBicocca.

Pictured: Trisha Baga, 1620 (2020), still photo. Co-produced by Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan with additional participation by Giò Marconi, Milan and SOCIÉTÉ, Berlin. ph. credit: Oto Gillen

Milan, Pirelli HangarBicocca hosts the first Italian exhibition of the American Trisha Baga

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