| ON VIEW Torkwase Dyson 61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia Venice, Italy Through Nov 22, 2026 For the 61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, In Minor Keys, curated by Koyo Kouoh, Torkwase Dyson debuts Tougaloo, an immersive sculptural installation with sound. Working within a distinct abstract language, which the artist terms “Black Compositional Thought,” Dyson employs forms refracted from histories of Black self-emancipation to explore the spatial dimensions of freedom. Presented at the Arsenale, Tougaloo draws on the artist’s experience at Tougaloo College in Mississippi, a campus where nineteenth-century plantation architecture exists alongside Modernist structures. Christina Sharpe writes “Dyson’s installations and paintings are arc and ribcage, overhang and surface. Cement and graphite conjure water, extraction, hum, breath and its absence. Sonic wavelength becomes another material to extend a line and expand a field. Her works are studies in possibility, where a curve, a line, a wave, a sound/ing are acts of holding and practices toward liberation.” |
Torkwase Dyson (b. 1973)
Errantry, 2024
Steel and timber
172 × 340 × 120 inches (436.9 × 863.6 × 304.8 cm)
Installation view of 1919: Black Water, Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery, Columbia University, New York, 2019
