Nolan Oswald Dennis un voile inflation model, 2021 Compounded PET globe model, synthetic stone finish, black primer and cowry shell veil Work: 54.2 x 20.8 x 20.8 cm
This series takes the terrestrial globe as a starting point and performs a series of simple transformations: doubling, halving, substitutions. These prepared globes become instruments for considering other planetary possibilities.
Dennis notes;
“Within this burning planet has always existed another world, and the struggle to realise it,” says Dennis. “The logic of colonial cosmology insists on the universality of the Western world: a planet rendered as private property, as social violence, as deliberate crisis. Occupying the same space and time as the colonial planet are other worlds. A planet rendered whole as indigenous land and life; a queer planet rendered just, feminist, socialist; a planet facing south, and east, and waterward. Altogether an ecology of black planets – a black cosmography (where black is a vector that opens toward hidden conditions of space and time).”
