Kambui Olujimi: North Star, Meditations on Boundlessness

Kambui Olujimi: North Star, Meditations on Boundlessness

What does the Black body, freed from the gravity of white supremacy, look like? Kambui Olujimi: North Star is an immersive exhibition that features Kambui Olujimi’s inquiry into the liberatory possibilities of weightlessness, a concept he has explored since 2019 as an alternative to the structuring forces of anti-Black racism. Olujimi’s projects implicate viewers in reimagining what is possible, often through elements drawn from history and everyday life. 

North Star brings together a selection of large-scale watercolor and ink paintings, a site-specific mural, a film, and a new audiovisual installation. These works collectively imagine what new relationships we might chart between our bodies, the self, the planet, and the universe once deeply entrenched forces are destabilized and replaced by boundlessness and possibility.

DETAILS

• Book title: Kambui Olujimi: North Star, Meditations on Boundlessness 
• Cover image: attached
• Pages & Casing: 160 pages Hardcover
• Publisher: Gregory R. Miller & Co.
• Preface by Kambui Olujimi. Essay by Hanif Abdurraqib. Artist interview with Koyo Kouoh.
  Symposium Excerpts by Yasi Alipour, Naomi Beckwith, Nayland Blake, Louis Chude-Sokei, Amaryllis R. Flowers, Sandra Jackson-Dumont, Arthur Jafa, Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, and J Wortham.