Kambui Olujimi: Flight and Freedom

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 Biennial 15, 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.