List Projects 35: Pap Souleye Fall
About the Exhibition
List Projects 35: Pap Souleye Fall runs July 30 through November 29, 2026, as the MIT List Visual Arts Center celebrates 40 years of experimentation. Artist and comic book illustrator Pap Souleye Fall develops works within a world they created called DEAD PIXEL, inspired by the black spots that appear on a screen from technological error. Through installation, performance, drawing, sculpture, and video, Fall visualizes empty spaces as portals to hidden realms of autonomy. In this new installation, the protagonist evades THE DATA COLLECTOR by camouflaging in green-screen green, in a world where data is a precious material like a human soul. The work connects the digital age to other systems of power, including slavery and the quilt patterns developed on the Underground Railroad to communicate hidden messages.