What connects a child’s first spoken word to the insatiable desire behind technological advancement? Trisha Baga pursues this question in her sixth solo exhibition, “MORE”, at Société gallery. In Baga’s expansive practice, machines are consistently treated as narrative entities; the artist empathizes with the tools and systems she employs, invoking them as metaphors for reflection, connection, and destruction. “MORE” symbolizes both a child’s first expressed desire and the relentless “more data, more speed” drive fueling technological progress.
The exhibition transforms the gallery into an immersive experiential space—an aberrant computer desktop. Here, Baga presents a shape-shifting, cyclical 3D video work that metabolizes original footage, Hollywood science fiction, and found sounds. The piece emerges from a power struggle with new software that operates on logics of prediction, suggestion, and completion. Defying the software’s imposed “primary narrative arc,” “MORE” fractalizes the story through layered approaches. This layered structure becomes a metaphor for the hostile conflict between human intuition and the automated logics seeking to direct creative labor.
Magnifying Technology: Repetition and Compassion
Baga draws parallels between machine learning and caregiving processes. She compares how we train technology to how we raise children, observing that both rely on repetition, care, and imitation. The artist delivers a startling critique of this relationship: “We raised machines like children, but without love, compassion, or respect; and that’s what the relationship reflects back to us,” she says. Through this lens, technology becomes a predatory appetite that exploits the human attachment instinct once essential for survival.
The exhibition cyclically moves across a vast terrain—from the depths of the sea to the infinity of space, from caves to the allure of Disney’s Carousel of Progress. With a voiceover drawn from Jeff VanderMeer’s Annihilation, Baga emphasizes how this insatiable appetite has created an ecosystem entirely alien to us, yet does so through a sublime act of mirroring and concealment.
Baga’s exhibition is not merely a visual surface but an invitation to a thought-provoking and immersive interface where time, desire, and systems appear and vanish.
Exhibition Information
Artist: Trisha Baga
Title: MORE
Venue: Société, Wielandstraße 26, 10707 Berlin
Dates: November 7, 2025 – January 15, 2026
Theme: Technology, Creativity, Human Intuition, and Insatiable Desire
