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No compensation is possible (working diagram)

2018 wallpaper, archival notes, hand drawn notes, found objects.Wallpaper, pencil drawings, chalk, found objects Available on Request Add to My Selection

excerpt: constellations (Black Liberation Zodiac)

2017 Wall mural installation

no conciliation is possible (compensation set)

2019 wallpaper, archival notes, hand drawn notes, found objects.

prop. 8 [prou(k)n]

2018 Set of two drawings: graphite, washi tape, marker on butter board Work (each): 61 x 45.7 cm Frame (each): 68.5 x 53.2 cm

prop.10 [prou(k)n]

2018 Set of two drawings: graphite, washi tape, marker on butter board Available on Request Add to My Selection

prop.5 [prou(k)n]

2018 Set of two drawings: graphite, washi tape, marker on butter board

after-world I (proof)

2018 Pencil and collage on paper Work: 84.1 x 59.4 cm

after-land (broken string theory)

2018 Pencil and collage on paper Work: 84.1 x 59.4 cm

After-Land (Fall)

2018 Ink, letratag label, silicon tube and aluminium tape on paper Available on Request Add to My Selection

habeas viscus (systems vocabulary)

2019 13 ink, collage and annotation on paper drawings

Polymelia (Mali / Milano)

2018 Ink and collage on paper

working through (nand gate)

2018 Ink, pencil painters plastic, digital print on paper Available on Request Add to My Selection

return (mayibuye)

2018 Ink, pencil painters plastic, digital print on paper

Another Country I

2015 Ink on paper 29 x 21 cm

Another Country III

2016 Ink on paper Work: 29 x 21 cm Frame: 34 x 26 cm

Another Country V

2015 Ink on paper Work: 29 x 21 cm Frame: 34 x 25.5 x 3.5 cm

Another Country VI

2015 Ink on paper 29 x 21 cm

Another Country VIII

2015 Ink on paper Work: 29 x 21 cm Frame: 34 x 26 cm

Dark Places I

2015 Ink and collage on paper Work: 69.5 x 50 cm Frame: 81 x 61 x 4 cm

Dark Places II

2016 Work: 70 x 50 cm Frame: 81 x 61 x 4 cm

Dark Places III

2016 Ink and collage on paper Work: 71 x 50 cm Frame: 81 x 61 x 4 cm

Other Country

2016 Ink, collage and gaffer's tape on paper Available on Request Add to My Selection

Aporia III

2016 Light box (plywood, fluorescent lights, utility blanket) Available on Request Add to My Selection

Aporia II

2016 Light box (plywood, fluorescent, utility blanket) Available on Request Add to My Selection

xenolith IV

2018 Soil, steel armature, adapted globe Work: 142 x 40 x 40 cm Available on Request Add to My Selection

xenolith V:prepositions

2018 Soil, steel armature, soil residue sculpture: 100 x 40 x 40 cm text: 212 x 105 cm Available on Request Add to My Selection

xenolith I

2018 Soil, steel armature, books Work: 135 x 40 x 40 cm Available on Request Add to My Selection

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2018 Soil, steel armature Work: 100 x 40 x 40 cm Available on Request Add to My Selection

xenolith III

2018 Soil, steel armature Work: 100 x 40 x 40 cm Available on Request Add to My Selection

Biko / Fanon (2.0)

2019 2 receipt printers, microcontroller, Available on Request Add to My Selection

biko.shabazz (al.ways/means)

2019 Receipt printer and microcontroller Available on Request Add to My Selection

About

Nolan Oswald Dennis (b. 1988, Zambia) 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.

Dennis’ 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 organise 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.

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).

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Exhibitions

Did you ever think there would come a time?

19 December - 12 March 2021

Group Show || Living Just Enough

06 October - 19 November 2020

How To Disappear

14 March - 25 June 2020

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News

Nolan Oswald Dennis on Young Congo Biennale

Posted 10 October 2019

Nolan Oswald Dennis and Haroon Gunn-Salie at Kunsthalle kAde

Posted 29 December 2017

NTU collective on 89plus exhibition in Zurich

Posted 12 May 2017

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Press

New York Times: At a Reduced Frieze Week, A Focus on Black Art

Nolan Oswald Dennis / Art in America / January 2020

Nolan Oswald Dennis / Bubblegumclub / February 2019

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