Known for her immersive 3D video installations that variously incorporate handcrafted objects with found materials, Baga engages individual perception in a technological economy characterized by accelerated attention spans. Often layering subjects, mediums, and themes through and against one another, Baga’s multimedia installations push perceptual experience to the foreground, staging a dialogue between objects in real and digitized space.
For this exhibition, Baga debuts “Orlando,” an exhibition that takes place in the far future where peacocks play the dominant species, and whose title references both the city in Florida and the novel by Virginia Woolf. In this temporal landscape, Florida has flooded following a great thaw, with Orlando being one of the last cities to go. The exhibition opens with a text disclaiming possible printing imperfections of a scanned reproduction of Half Mile Down, a volume by early 20th century naturalist and scientist William Beebe that documents deep-sea exploration. Unlike the original, Baga has altered two key words, changing each instance of “book” to “man,” and “it” to “her.” In Baga’s subtle revision, the human body and identity are linked to cultural artifact.
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