I Can't Breathe: Black Life and the Metaverse

Kholeif, Omar

I Can't Breathe: Black Life and the Metaverse

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Kholeif, Omar (2023) I Can't Breathe: Black Life and the Metaverse. In: I'll Be Your Mirror: Art and the Digital Screen. Delmonico Books, D.A.P, The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, New York, USA, pp. 168-178. ISBN 9781636810959
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I Can't Breathe: Black Visuality and the Metaverse

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Editors:

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Hearst, Alison

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Creators/Authors:

Kholeif, Omar

Abstract:

In this chapter, part of the accompanying publication for the exhibition, I"ll Be Your Mirror: Art and the Digital Screen held at The Modern Art Museum, Fort Worth in 2023, Omar Kholeif, uses hybrid modes of narration to interrogate the modes in which Black visuality, and Black violence seep, leak, and recur in U.S. aesthetic and popular culture.

Specifically, they interrogate the aesthetic modus afforded by the invention of the iPhone. Examining the role that this device has had on Black aesthetic culture and social justice movements, they query if the circular nature of the post-digital sphere, inevitably short-circuits to a point, which ultimately leads to inevitable erasure.

Official URL:

https://delmonicobooks.com/book/ill-be-your-mirror-art-and-the-digital-screen/

Uncontrolled Keywords:

iPhone, Black Lives Matter, Darnella Frazier, George Floyd, American Artist, Metaverse.

School/Academic Area:

School of Fine Art

Dates:

Date

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1 April 2023

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Published

Funders:

The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas, Thoma Foundation, Delmonico Books

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I'll Be Your Mirror: Art and the Digital Screen

Copyright and Open Access Information:

My essay can be requested by scholars and researchers and used by researchers and in teaching, but it cannot be freely available to download on RADAR due to the fact that the argument is reliant on the images, one of which belongs to a film studio, which would not allow for this. Thank you.

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Date Deposited:

18 Feb 2026 19:17

Last Modified:

11 May 2026 08:54

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Omar Kholeif

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Omar Kholeif

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