Kambui Olujimi: WALK WITH ME Catalog 2nd Edition

PES is pleased to present a second edition of Kambui Oljumni WALK WITH ME exhibition catalog. This edition includes nearly 200 ink-washed portraits, along with a selection of texts, installation images, and a new special cover. Texts include an interview by Christopher Myers and essay by PES Co-director Jasmine Wahi that pertain to the conceptual, visual, and personal reflections on WALK WITH ME. The catalog is signed by the artist.

About the Artist
Kambui Olujimi was born and raised in Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. He received his MFA from Columbia University School of the Arts and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Olujimi works within the realm of ideas rather than within an exclusive medium. Although he has directed a great deal of work in film, his is truly a multi-media practice. He crafts potent social commentary complicates and reconsiders established modes of thinking that have morphed into what commonly function as "inevitabilities." This pursuit takes shape through interdisciplinary bodies of work that investigate these phenomena from multiple angles of inquiry. His work manifests collective psychic space as a means of investigating social practices, policies, and exchanges. Olujimi is interested in the seamless process of synthesizing invisible constructs into inevitabilities. He excavates the language and aesthetics of social, historical, and cultural conventions and brings them out of the world of the implicit. Once given gravity, weight, and shape it becomes possible to reveal their incongruities and their illusory nature.