In The Dark, We Lose Our Edges (2022)

Kambui Olujimi

In The Dark, We Lose Our Edges
2022
Mixed media installation, with sand, faux boulders, ceramic, soundscape and watercolour-cyanotype works on paper 55,500 cm²

A Temporary Understanding of Octavia Butler
2022
From ‘In The Dark, We Lose Our Edges’, 2022
2 panels: watercolour, ink and cyanotype on paper
183 x 183 cm each

A Temporary Understanding of Kool Keith
2022
From ‘In The Dark, We Lose Our Edges’, 2022
2 panels: watercolour, ink, cyanotype and collage on paper
183 x 183 cm each

A Temporary Understanding of Ellen Craft
2022
From ‘In The Dark, We Lose Our Edges’, 2022
2 panels: watercolour, ink and cyanotype on paper
183 x 183 cm each

A Temporary Understanding of Samuel R. Delany
2022
From ‘In The Dark, We Lose Our Edges’, 2022
2 panels: watercolour, ink, cyanotype and collage on paper
183 x 183 cm each

A Temporary Understanding of John the Conqueror
2022
From ‘In The Dark, We Lose Our Edges’, 2022
2 panels: watercolour, ink and cyanotype on paper
183 x 183 cm each

A Temporary Understanding of John W. Cooper
2022
From ‘In The Dark, We Lose Our Edges’, 2022
2 panels: watercolour, ink and cyanotype on paper
183 x 183 cm each

A Temporary Understanding of Grace Jones
2022
From ‘In The Dark, We Lose Our Edges’, 2022
2 panels: watercolour, ink and cyanotype on paper
183 x 183 cm each

A Temporary Understanding of Yma Sumac
2022
From ‘In The Dark, We Lose Our Edges’, 2022
2 panels: watercolour, ink and cyanotype on paper
183 x 183 cm each

Courtesy of the artist

Overview

With an idiosyncratic sensibility informed by Afrofuturism and inflected by humour, Kambui Olujimi mines the collective psyche as
a source of social and political commentary. At the core of the site-specific installation In the Dark, We Lose Our Edges (2022) are three triangulated ceramic busts anchored amid a sea of blue sand and a cluster of large rocks, which survey a monumental wall painting wrapped around the space. Their materiality evokes colonial and industrial legacies of gold, cobalt and porcelain as well as urban planning cartography.
Each segment of the walls outside the central core of the installation, meanwhile, honours a different revolutionary figure with a large- scale cyanotype and watercolour diptych.

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