Trisha Baga’s “MORE” Opens at Société Berlin – A Journey Through the Strange Language of Machines

There is something hypnotic about watching a machine think. The rhythm of logic and error, precision and chaos, mirrors something deeply human. In their new exhibition MORE, artist Trisha Baga invites viewers to step into that strange space where technology stops being merely a tool and becomes a companion, a mirror, and sometimes an adversary.

Opening at Société in Berlin this November, MORE is not just an exhibition. It is an exploration of the relationship between creation and control, instinct and automation. Through an immersive 3D video, ceramic installations, and a series of projected works, Baga transforms the gallery into what feels like a living desktop, a surreal interface that hums and flickers with questions about what it means to create in a world ruled by algorithms.

At the centre of the exhibition is a video work that pushes against the confines of modern software. Made using an editing programme determined to impose a “primary storyline,” Baga instead fractures that logic, creating something that feels fluid and alive. The result is a visual conversation between human intuition and machine determination. It is chaotic, mesmerising, and profoundly self-aware.

The film journeys from the deep sea to the vastness of outer space, weaving together Hollywood sci-fi fragments, found sound, and intimate moments of reflection. There are moments of warmth, where a soft voice asks questions about likeness and difference, and others where automated prompts demand proof of identity and humanity. Together, these voices form an unsettling but fascinating rhythm that feels both familiar and alien.

Baga’s genius lies in how they blur the boundaries between empathy and critique. Machines in MORE are not cold mechanisms but emotional creatures, capable of mirroring our desire, hunger, and fear. The exhibition considers how we have raised our technologies much like children, yet without the care or respect they might require. This idea unfolds through sculptural and visual motifs that echo the nurturing and training of both human and artificial minds.

What emerges is a world that loops endlessly back on itself. Stories, images, and systems feed each other in a perpetual cycle of imitation. There is beauty in this recursion, but also a quiet warning — a reminder that the same instinct that built our tools could also be the one that binds us to them.

As the lights shift across the gallery and the works hum with quiet movement, MORE becomes an experience that is both intellectual and sensory. It asks for patience. It rewards curiosity. And it leaves visitors with a lingering sense that perhaps the line between human and machine was never as clear as we thought.

MORE by Trisha Baga runs from 7 November 2025 to 17 January 2026 at Société Berlin, with an opening preview on 6 November.