Artist Nolan Oswald Dennis speaks about the exhibition 'throwers', which took place at Gasworks in London from 24 April – 22 June 2025.
'throwers' was the first UK solo exhibition by Johannesburg-based artist Dennis. Including large-scale murals, intricate diagrams, and a 3D-printed installation, the exhibition investigated the intersections of geology, cosmology, and political histories. The works examined the conditions that organise our social sub-terrain and the structures that pre-determine the limits of our political imagination.
Featuring new and existing works, 'throwers' challenged the colonial conception of a singular, knowable “world”, instead suggesting new models for envisioning a Black planet. One model is a new iteration of 'recurse 4 a late planet' (2024-ongoing), a vast wall mural weaving cosmological, geological and techno-political knowledge towards a social history of stones. Dennis’s diagram draws from an archive of near-Earth-asteroids and their cosmic journeys, paying particular attention to the “potentially-hazardous-objects” that periodically threaten catastrophic damage to our planet.
