MIA BAILEY
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ARTIST’S STATEMENT The central theme of my written and visual work is the possibility of sight, both physical and metaphorical: when we look, can we see? This question extends from our apprehension of the visual images we’re flooded with on a day-to-day basis (with their claim to an objective visual truth), to the implications of deeply subjective personal experience, such as altered mental states or ecstatic mystical experience (with the subject’s claim to a truth beyond what can be physically seen). By extension, I'm interested in the possibility of knowledge from within a subjective body: what of the world can we objectively know? To what extent are we trapped in our own history and culture? Can I actually see something if I don't yet know its name? In this sense I'm as interested in the outer limits of sight as in the outer limits of language. About

Mia Bailey is an artist and writer who works with video, photography, text, textiles, artists’ books, and installation. She was born in Bangkok, Thailand, and grew up in Australia, Canada, France and Japan. She holds Australian and German citizenship. She has received a BA (hons) in Comparative Religions (Asia, Africa and the Middle East) from SOAS, University of London, UK, a Diploma in Fine Arts from the State Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe, as well as the title Meisterschülerin. She also gained an MFA in Fiction at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, USA. Her written work has been anthologised, and she has taught Writing at the University of Iowa and the Berlin Writers’ Workshop. Mia has been exhibiting internationally since 2005, most recently in Abu Dhabi (UAE), Pforzheim (DE), Tehuantepec (MX), Dresden (DE), Geneva, Winterthur, and Basel (CH). She has received grants and prizes from MacDowell, the Cité des Arts Paris, the Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg, the Graduiertenstipendium des Landes Baden-Württemberg, Enovos Förderpreis Junge Kunst, and the Fachausschuss Multimedia Basel/Baselland, amongst others. In the last five years, projects have been funded by the Stiftung Kunstfonds (Neustart Kultur), the BBK, and the MWK Baden-Württemberg, and she has been awarded grants for art and science residencies at Cultivamos Cultura (PT) and at the Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute in St Andrews (UK). She is a member of the Künstlerbund Baden-Württemberg.
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