Everything That Didn't Fit · Mimi Ọnụọha

Mimi Ọnụọha's first solo exhibition with bitforms gallery examines the quotidian logic of the technocolonial — how certain experiences, people, histories, and sensations fall outside of contemporary systems of digital data collection. Ọnụọha's practice centers on what it means for the world to be turned into data, whether by accident or intention, tracing patterns of absence and loss within historical and contemporary contexts. The exhibition is an ode to absence, and a call to undo and expand the categories of value that inform modern sociotechnical systems. The experiences of those in the undercommons — we who are Black, brown, immigrants, or caught between categories — especially reveal the implications of data collection. Working across installations, prints, videos, and websites, Ọnụọha often creates multiple versions of pieces, each iteration highlighting new threads.

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