Swiss Institute presents 'overturns,' the first institutional solo exhibition in the US by Zambian-born, South Africa-based artist Nolan Oswald Dennis. His work revolves around what he refers to as a "Black consciousness of space" — the framework through which he explores both the physical and spiritual aspects of decolonisation.
'overturns' stems 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 dominant Western forms of knowledge production. On the ground floor at the Swiss Institute, the latest works explore the tensions between the racialised, propertied world and the diverse Black and Indigenous visions that exist alongside, within and in resistance to it.
The exhibition is on view until 20 April 2025.
