Trisha Baga is a young artist working mainly in video and performance. Her approach is open and intuitive, with a homespun aesthetic that might incorporate screen effects, recordings of herself singing layered over soundtracks, scenes spliced together and improvised props. Picking up on chance constellations of objects in her bedroom, or familiar images cast in a new light, she is interested in the "common things" that surround us, using these to guide phenomenological compositions about the act of looking and recognising, and the potentiality that might lie in the gap between. Her work could be said to foreground distraction as a methodology: With an approach to narrative that recalls the logic of browsing online and hyperlinks, she allows herself the space to drift, notice and find.
Sherman, Elisabeth, Ghost Writers, Elisabeth Sherman on Trisha Baga's The Great Pam, Artforum, April, p.
Trisha Baga interviewed by Jenny Jaskey on the occasion of "Plymouth Rock 2 at Whitney Museum, New York, Mousse Magazine, moussemagazine.it/trisha-baga-whitney/, 5 Dec. 2012. Dundee goes Pop: Trisha Baga, Holiday, at Dundee Contemporary Art, The Herald, 8 Dec. 2012 Fite-Wassilak, Chris, "Review: Trisha Baga: Rock", Art Review, No. 61, Sept 2012, p. 124 – 125 Mclean-Ferris, Laura, "Trisha Baga: Rock", Art Monthly, No. 356, May 2012, p. 24 – 25.
Piper Marshall, Case Study: Trisha Baga - The New York based artist's latest video installation, Plymouth Rock, in: Frieze No. 147, May 2012, p. 178 – 179.