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Consuming passion: Nolan Oswald Dennis’s installation garden for Fanon, in which earthworms turn a book by 20th-century political philosopher Frantz Fanon into soil. Photos: Anthea Pokroy
AFRICAN AESTHETICS

The garden that eats Frantz Fanon

Artist Nolan Oswald Dennis’s installation turns theory into soil, questioning who gets to decide what’s important — and why

  • Thembeka Heidi Sincuba
6 min read
Vusumzi Nkomo
AVA GALLERY

The sculptures where nothing is true and everything is permitted

Recent shows by the sculptors Nolan Oswald Dennis, Vusumzi Nkomo and Diana Vives make for fascinating viewing

  • Sean O Toole
10 min read
‘An essay game is a modest experiment. It’s basically an attempt, an incomplete form that tries to rearrange existing knowledge.’ (Image courtesy of artist)
ART

Black liberation dreaming: Nolan Oswald Dennis’s digital essay game ‘a sun.black’

Nolan Oswald Dennis’s digitial essay game, ‘a sun.black’, keeps all options available as it examines decolonisation

  • Nkgopoleng Moloi
9 min read
Choices: The Options exhibition is made up of diagrams and schema such as ‘prop 8 [prou(k)n]’, 2018
EXHIBITION

Worming into the guts of the unseen

The exhibition ‘Options’ is a search by artist Nolan Oswald Dennis for humanity

  • Lindokuhle Nkosi
10 min read
Diamonds on display at the De Beers global sightholder sales in Gaborone. The high prices being placed on the boxes have resulted in sightholders declining them.
NOLAN OSWALD DENNIS

Nolan Oswald Dennis on South Africa’s shattered dreams and the future

Dennis’s first solo exhibition maps out and rejects SA’s popularised social fictions.

  • stefanie jason
4 min read