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        "tombstone": "Italo, 2021. Kambui Olujimi (American, b. 1976). Ink and graphite on paper; unframed: 182.9 x 223.5 cm (72 x 88 in.); framed: 204.5 x 242.6 cm (80 1/2 x 95 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Partial Gift of the Contemporary Art Society and Partial Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 2021.147. \u00a9 Kambui Olujimi",
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        "copyright": "\u00a9 Kambui Olujimi",
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                    "id": 437637,
                    "title": "New Histories, New Futures",
                    "description": "<i>New Histories, New Futures</i>. Transformer Station, Cleveland, OH (June 26-September 12, 2021).",
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                {
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                    "title": "Contemporary Art Rotation - Spring 2022",
                    "description": "<i>Contemporary Art Rotation - Spring 2022</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 1-September 25, 2022).",
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        "did_you_know": "To simulate floating bodies, the artist used video and photographs of people jumping on trampolines as models for this series.",
        "description": "Kambui Olujimi\u2019s <em>North Star</em> series features paintings, drawings, and video of weightless, floating Black bodies \u201cfreed from the gravity of oppression,\u201d as the artist puts it. Olujimi pictures a future in which a politics of resistance can result in true bodily freedom. The artist is interested in representing Black joy or Black rhapsody as a counternarrative to the constant circulation of imagery of Black suffering and death. All of the figures in his paintings have variegated skin tones and ambiguous genders, highlighting their occupation of a transitional space and our perception of them as futuristic, otherworldly beings.",
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                "citation": "<em>KAMBUI OLUJIMI: North Star</em>. (ARTBOOK D A P, 2025)",
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