Kambui Olujimi
Wayward North
June 5-July 1, 2010
81 Front Street, Dumbo, Brooklyn

Opening Reception Saturday, June 5, 2-5 pm

Brooklyn-based artist Kambui Olujimi works in a variety of media, ranging from film to installation to photography. For his New Commission project with Art in General, Wayward North, Olujimi explores the role of myth-making in today's mediated world, through a series of twelve 20 by 10 foot tapestries, each embroidered by the artist with constellations of fine thread and rhinestones that compose a narrative of contemporary "star maps." Subverting the tradition of tapestries as a record for historical events, these woven constellations transform a series of fantastic yet personal stories and play on the relationship between fact and fiction, memory and reality.