Biennial Bytes, Sharjah Art Foundation
May 8, 2023
”Ep 7: Kambui Olujimi— Flight and Freedom”
With Hoor Al Qasimi
What happens to a Black body when it stops being weighed down by forces of oppression and is freed from gravity? Can the result be Black rhapsody?
To find out, listen to Kambui Olujimi in conversation with SB15 curator Hoor Al Qasimi
At Sharjah, Olujimi installed an immersive, site-specific work called In The Dark, We Lose Our Edges (2023) comprising sculpture, sound and painting. The installation references colonial printing processes, Congolese masks and mazes with many routes, to propose the ways in which bodies might defy gravity and take flight.
Olujimi’s works are on view at The Flying Saucer till 11 June 2023.
Press play to learn more about Olujimi’s practice, process and SB15 project as well as what makes his work speak to our current time and place.
NPR
”To The Best Of Our Knowledge; Zulu Time: Artist Kambui Olujimi Explores the Many Dimensions of Time”
Aired August 12, 2017
With Charles Monroe-Kane
Kambui Olujimi: The Drop, from the series InDecisive Moments, 2017. Glass, approx. 30 x 20 x 20 inches. Courtesy the artist.
It’s hard to wrap your head around climate change. How do you really take in the concept of planetary change over decades or even centuries? Visual artist Kambui Olujimi explores different ideas about time in his one-man show “Zulu Time” — from glacial time to the politics of colonial time.