Asja Baii (b. 1988, Lithuania) is a multidisciplinary artist and researcher based in Germany. Drawing from a formal background in Languages and Literature and Visual Communications, her practice investigates the threshold between material reality and metaphysical experience. Her work utilises a minimalist visual language to explore post-human nostalgia and the concept of speculative futures. Since 2021, Baii has been engaged in lens-based research into Material Memory and the phenomenology of light and space within the built environment.
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Artist statement
My practice begins with attention rather than a fixed plan. I work across installation, drawing, photography, and moving image, often responding to materials, spaces, and situations as I encounter them.
I am drawn to moments when something ordinary begins to feel charged: a found object, a fragment of organic matter, a particular light, an empty space. I use these encounters to make temporary arrangements, interventions, and images that sit somewhere between sculpture, ritual, and trace.
Many of the works are fragile or short-lived. They may collapse, decay, be dismantled, or return to the environment, leaving only photographs, video, drawings, or other remnants behind. I am interested in this instability and in the idea that a work does not need to become a permanent object in order to exist fully.
Recurring throughout my practice are contrasts between the organic and the synthetic, darkness and light, physical matter and the unseen. I think of materials as carrying memory, and of making as a way of noticing moments when the physical world seems to open onto something less tangible.
Rather than illustrating the metaphysical, I am interested in creating conditions in which it can be felt.