Trisha Baga "The Biggest Circle"
Greene Naftali Gallery
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Greene Naftali presents The Biggest Circle, an exhibition of new work by New York-based artist Trisha Baga. This will be the artists first solo show at the gallery. This exhibition coincides with Bagas Plymouth Rock 2, a solo exhibition in the lobby gallery of the Whitney Museum of American Art, and her participation in the MoMA PS1 group show, New Pictures of Common Objects.
Trisha Bagas abundant video installations flow between the moving image, distinct three-dimensionality, and a flirtation with the history of two-dimensional practice. Projecting digital video of pop culture scenes and original footage across installations of found and constructed objects, Baga creates immersive environments in which the tangible and the virtual each have an insistent presence. Moreover, a fresh angle on performance plays an important role in her exhibitions Baga has performed at EAI and PS1 in New York, The Cornerhouse in Manchester, and Johann Koenig in Berlin. Whether through performance or through insights to her practice captured on video, the artist makes unassuming appearances in many of her pieces.
For this exhibition, Baga has turned the gallery space into a grand theatre of imagery, sound, and objects. Five discrete videos and video installations show an exploration of the capacity of narrative, and a sensibility dangling between the poetic and the comedic. Scattered throughout the gallery space, and selectively obscuring the video works, are a collection of slight, mundane objects empty water bottles, utilitarian folding tables, bits of Styrofoam. The artist opens the show with Bags Circle, in which a painted bag, drifting in and out of visibility, rotates along the gallery walls, while vibrant paintings and tropical trees act as varying locators. Bags Circle is at once expansive and compressed, splendid and uncanny. As the viewer moves through Bagas installations, boundaries between space, viewer, and artwork dissolve in a way that is at once disconcerting and an opportunity for new possibilities.
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Schedule
from November 29, 2012 to January 12, 2013