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Mirjam Baker's exhibition Cavelight is a mesmerising reflection on the relationship between visual perception and cognitive processes: For exactly nine minutes and twelve seconds, the animated film Cavelight (2022) allows us to perceive something that withdraws from rational understanding due to the speed of the editing as well as the abstract content of what can be seen. Cavelight also deliberately undermines any spatial orientation; neither above nor below can be discerned. To describe this effect, Baker uses the term ‘spatial confusion’, which enables her to question the visual space by means of abstraction.
is a painter and filmmaker. Born in Melk, Austria in 1985, she studied Media Technologies in St. Pölten (2010) and Animation at the Royal College of Art in London (2014). She has received awards and scholarships for her work at the boundaries between painting and film, including the Daler-Rowney Prize and the Nat Cohen Award of the Royal College of Art, the Künstlerhaus Prize Vienna as well as multiple short film fundings from the Film- und Medienstiftung NRW, the Federal Chancellery of Austria and the state of Lower Austria. Her film installation Dust, shown in her solo exhibition at the tresor in the Bank Austria Kunstforum Vienna in 2021, was acquired by the Lower Austria Art Collection. Her work can be regularly seen in exhibitions and at film festivals. She lives and works in Cologne.