In These Networks In Our Skin, Mimi Ọnụọha updates Igbo cosmological tradition to the present-day, enveloping the cables that run beneath the ground as a space under the dominion of a historical land deity. In the short film, four women (whose faces remain obscured throughout the entire piece) collectively work to rewire the cables that carry the information that powers the world, filling them with materials of significance that draw on themes of ritual and collectively. Ọnụọha converts what could easily be mechanized labor into communal repair. 

The short film offers a dreamlike visual lexicon of what it might mean to recreate the internet and more, starting from the philosophical, cultural, and relational values infused in the infrastructure that make it up.  It is currently on view at the Victoria & Albert Museum. 

Nigerian-American artist Mimi Ọnụọha's work questions and exposes the contradictory logics of technological progress. Through print, code, data, video, installation, and archival media, Ọnụọha offers new orientations for making sense of the seeming absences that define systems of labor, ecology and relations.

Ọnụọha's work has been featured at the Whitney Museum of Art (USA), the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (AUS), Mao Jihong Arts Foundation (China), La Gaitê Lyrique (France), Gropius Bau (Germany), The Photographers Gallery (UK), and the Atlanta Contemporary (USA) among others. Her public art engagements have been supported by Akademie der Kunst (Germany), the Royal College of Art (UK), the Rockefeller Foundation (USA), and Princeton University (USA). Her work is in the collections of the Victoria and Albert Musuem (UK).

Ọnụọha is a Creative Capital and Fulbright-National Geographic grantee. She is also the Co-Founder of A People's Guide To Tech, an artist-led organization that makes educational guides and workshops about emerging technology.