This month I had the chance to visit Salt Galata, a contemporary art space occupying a former bank building in the Karaköy district of Istanbul. This work by Richard Whitby titled The Lost Ones was on, showing residency status assessments being carried out by an unforgiving, disembodied voice.

Through dark humour, it highlights the casual violence of bureaucratic processes that increasingly reduce complex lived realities data points and scores, and abstractions of eligibility, compliance, and risk, making visible how technical processes of classification are bound up with questions of belonging and exclusion, highlighting the politics of datafication and its impact on everyday life.