When we return to certain memories, whether they be stored for us as images in the mind, as printed pictures, or as binary data, we imagine these figments to be essentially siteless, floating. We think of the Cloud as existing immanently, all around us, hanging in the air between screens. And it is. But it is also anchored to real, monumental amounts of physical space. It is not just everywhere, it is somewhere on Earth, sitting on millions of square feet of land, ready to be called up in front of your eyes with the right keywords.

OK Pedersen (b.1993 Chicago) is a first generation Middle Eastern-American now living and working in Tiohtià:ke/Montréal. She witnesses the world through the kaleidoscopic powers of language––its pendulum of potency and ineptitude. Her work circles around modern myth, mainstream media, and the architecture of memory, as a way to address the cyclical nature of existence. Her practice is dedicated to exploring the mediating mechanisms, both visible and invisible, that structure our means of communication and intersubjective exchange. OK Pedersen completed her MFA at Concordia University in 2022. She is the 2022-23 recipient of the Dazibao Jeune tête d’affiche prize and her short film Cloud Gate 2 was recently presented at the Rencontres internationales du documentaire de Montréal.