Using AI, Mimi Ọnụọha Reminds Us That We Don’t Know What We Don’t Know

When I visited her Brooklyn studio, Mimi Ọnụọha was working beneath a handwritten sign that read what we don’t talk about. That phrase came to her while making new work for a show that opened in late November at the Vienna Secession, but it also speaks well for nearly all Ọnụọha’s multimedia works, which incisively contend with all that datasets contain—and all that they leave out.Starting in 2019, Ọnụọha began working clos