Louisa Bufardeci is fascinated by the way our world is visually materialized through data measurement. Studying statistics, images, and sounds, Bufardeci turns such quantitative information into wall drawings, installations, and sculptures that challenge understandings of governing values, equality, taxation, export distribution, string theory, and ethnicity to the nation, among others. A “radical cartographer”, Bufardeci scours maps, charts, databases, official censuses, disciplinary reports, and surveillance tables in an effort to re-present how such information is recalled and controls our social, cultural, and political assumptions of society and its habitat. For example, in Bufardeci’s work, sound waves of anti-war speeches are pictured in needle-point tapestries; national flags are given four dimensions in hanging fabric; detention centers are eerily conceptualized as cold storage units. Bufardeci’s practice gives a unique insight into how the visualization of our reality conditions our judgments, and how the manipulation of data is too often the self-interested practice of governing bodies that far too often inculcates injustice and disenfranchisement, to the detriment of minorities, the environment, and culturally prejudiced.