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Nolan Oswald Dennis #Pickedby Alice Bucknell

Nolan Oswald Dennis works in sculpture, diagram, and moving image to explore what they describe as a “black consciousness of space.” Their practice examines the material and metaphysical conditions of decolonization, tracing the hidden systems that shape how space, time, and political imagination are structured. Living and working in Johannesburg, Dennis constructs diagrammatic worlds that reveal – and reconfigure – the limits of what can be perceived, known, and imagined.

“Their work feels singular in its expansiveness – cosmopoetic, at once dense and open-ended,” says Alice Bucknell about Nolan. “They move fluidly across sculpture, film, and diagram, tracing Blackness as an unbounded vector. Each project unfolds like a constellation of possible pasts and futures – entangled, in motion, and returning new meanings with each encounter.

“further notes 4 a planet (9 dash) sticks with me: a haptic diagram that undoes its own structure, where language becomes a world-making technology – immediate and infinite.”

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Nolan Oswald Dennis: overturns
January 22 – April 13, 2025

Join us on Wednesday, January 22 from 6-8 PM for the opening reception of overturns, the first institutional solo exhibition in the US by Nolan Oswald Dennis (@data_body).

Dennis traverses the subterrains of what they call a “black consciousness of space,” a multivalent conceptual framework for exploring the material and metaphysical conditions of decolonization. Employing a systems-oriented approach, Dennis interrogates the discourses and practices of Black, queer, and Indigenous liberation.

overturns departs from a pair of conceptual threads in the work of Jamaican philosopher Sylvia Wynter. Lending the exhibition its title, Dennis references Wynter’s call to develop a “new science” that combines the humanities and the natural sciences in order to overturn prevailing Western epistemes. Dennis couples this ethic of disciplinary transgression with a reworking of Wynter’s theory of the “genres” of the human, which argues that the social, economic, and ecological inequities that pervade the global present are the result of the ongoing systemic “overrepresentation” of “Man,” a dominant Western bourgeois genre of being human. For overturns, Dennis advances their notion of the “genres of the planet” to consider modernity’s figuration of the Earth as unified, transparent, and amenable to the proprietary drives of racial capital.

This exhibition is organized by KJ Abudu (@kj_abudu), Assistant Curator, Public Programs and Residencies. Special thanks to Alison Coplan (@alicopes), Chief Curator. In partnership with Gasworks, London (@gasworkslondon).

Image: Nolan Oswald Dennis, recurse 4 a late planet (lush), 2024, (detail).

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[ID: A geometric diagram drawn in white over a black background, annotated with white text, featuring mathematical abstractions and symbols.] A black and white geometric diagram featuring annotations, mathematical abstractions, and symbols. by @secure_channel

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2 years ago

isivivane (2022 - ∞) after Tshwane, Seoul, after Seoul, Rotterdam. Day 3 of 219
We’re printing southern African rocks for the next 7 months on the 3rd floor of @kunstinstituutmelly with good reason and good will (-power). by @secure_channel

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from “a recurse 4 [3] worlds” available at @kunsthallebasel by @secure_channel

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3 years ago

humbled to be included amongst so many inspiring and challenging artists in this @thamesandhudson book about ~drawing~ by @secure_channel

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3 years ago

Black Liberation Zodiac: Khunuseti (2023)
in Positions #7: Everything Worthwhile is Done with Other People at @vanabbemuseum
Curated by @yolandezolazolivanderheide & Nick Aikens

📸: Peter Cox by @secure_channel

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3 years ago

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opening @ccaberlin tonight⚡️⚡️ by @secure_channel

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4 years ago

been working on a bad theory of prompts and counter-prompts for a few months now, it’s still not clear what practices such a theory should include, or exclude. What comes to mind when you hear the word prompt? What makes you feel prompt(ed)? 🔮 by @secure_channel

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4 years ago

mothballed geoscience museum bts taken in School of GeoSciences, WITS by @secure_channel

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5 years ago

ascii notes for a geological thing by @secure_channel

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5 years ago

bts: Installation Instructions for ‘a garden for fanon’
A4 print size designed and printed in studio with additional data on a special NTU usb drive 🧿

In a very nice grey box by @pulp.paperworks
(with huge appreciation for @karenamarie_lieb) by @secure_channel

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5 years ago

👁 a secret library installation of ‘No Conciliation is Possible’ in Johannesburg up now. Also pick up a special edition screen printed worksheet available from the library for free 🕸 by @secure_channel

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