Nolan Oswald Dennis Rememberer (Kgositsile’s Folly), 2022 Print on fabric and metal stands Work: 300 x 260 cm
'Rememberer (Kgositsile’s Folly)' is an annotated wallpaper from ‘a black liberation zodiac’ series. This excerpt, presented as an infinity curve, is dedicated to the South African poet Keorapetse Kgositsile and his temporal conception of a black pastpresentfuture.
Keorapetse Kgositsile’s poetry and his exile in the USA weaves important connections between the African American anti-racist struggle and the anti-apartheid struggle (eg. The Last Poets - an important NY based political poetry collective who named themselves after Kgositsile’s work). In this artwork the anti-slavery and radical iconography of Afro-American resistance is put in dialogue with anti-colonial symbolic
language from the African continent. This work takes the conceptual form of a Folly, a landscape architectural genre of minor ruins. In this work, a Folly becomes a rehearsal for a still missing monument.
