Nolan Oswald Dennis
Afterworld (proof), 2018
About
Nolan Oswald Dennis is an interdisciplinary artist from Johannesburg, South Africa. His
practice explores what he calls ‘a black consciousness of space’: the material and
metaphysical conditions of decolonization.
After World II (invoice), 2018
His work questions the politics of space and time through a system-specific, rather than site-specific approach. He is concerned with the hidden structures that pre-determine the limits of our social and political imagination. Through a language of diagrams, drawings and models he explores a hidden landscape of systematic and structural conditions that organize our political sub-terrain. This sub-space is framed by systems which transverse multiple realms (technical, spiritual, economic, psychological, etc) and therefore Dennis’ work can be seen as an attempt to stitch these, sometime opposed, sometimes complimentary, systems together. To read technological systems alongside spiritual systems, to combine political fictions with science fiction.
Ecliptic: Black Liberation Zodiac, 2017
Excerpt: constallations (Black Liberation Zodiac), 2017
He holds a degree in Architecture from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.and
a Masters of Science in the Art, Culture and Technology from the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology (MIT)”(text and courtesy Goodman Gallery SA)