NADA New York 2022

LaJuné McMillian examines embodied metadata, a term that refers to the data about the data our bodies produce, which often eludes recognition by machines and society. This self-portrait series describes how bodies can be accounted for in ways that humanize the self. McMillian’s work challenges digital spaces in terms of how technologic limitations may harm, isolate, restrain, and ignore the needs of Black people. What worlds must be built for the liberated body to exist?