Nolan Oswald Dennis is featured in the 2021 Boras Biennial.
Curated by Stockholm-based Ulrika Flink and London-based Amanprit Sandhu, the Biennial invited Swedish and international artists to consider what new forms of collective action might look like in today’s world and to explore what constitutes a city’s emotional relationships and social structures.
Dennis’s new commission for the biennial, 'Xenolith Field', questions the politics of space and time through the use of soil as a complex model for social life. His ongoing series of Xenolith sculptures are to be found across three sites in Boras, linking the city to an ongoing investigation of a black consciousness and the material and metaphysical conditions of decolonization. The artist’s installation at the museum further explores these ideas through a large wall diagram and sculptural works that map new associations, systems, and cosmologies that hold emancipatory potential.
